Slow HDTach scores

[conlan]

Using an Asus CUBX, I have an Maxtor DM+40 10G ATA-66 HDD, the CMD controller is working, i have the ATA-66 enabled, the first boot is the ATA contoller, and in Windows98SE device manager, the HDD is listed under Primary CMD Ultra DMA bus master IDE controller@ Ultra DMA Mode4, so all seems well but im getting a crappy 13.0 ms seek time using HDTach. Any clues?? And yes, i've tried a different ATA-66 cable (a few in fact) and it's plugged into the Blue #3 ATA-66 slot. Thanks for any help.

 

[Tweakin]

ConLan...Maxtor lists the drive as follows:
Seek Times (Typical):
Track to track: ....................... 1.0 ms
Average: .............................. 9.0 ms
Maximum: .............................. <20.0 ms>
I wouldn't say that you are way out of range with your seek time...when you add in a little overhead for the bus, you are on the high side of average, but within the normal range. How is you throughput?

 

[conlan]

31005kps max. 18825kps min. 26124kps avg. Thanks for the response
EDIT... Read only test, no write test

 

[conlan]

ttt

 

[RSI]

Your ATA-66 controller is slow or malfunctioning, plain and simple. Your highest throughput should at least reach 50MB/s. Some hard drives reach 60MB/s (mine being one of the ones that's capable.. but motherboard is only ATA-33 compatible, so oh well).

 

[conlan]

thanks for the response, i was affraid of that. Nothing but bad reports on the CMD ATA controller.

 

[robg1701]

No, the BURST rate should reach that, not the Max/Min/Avg reading...no IDE drive on the planet im aware of can do 'at least' 50MB/s max STR...

For what its worth conlan, your throughtput figures sound fine to me, especially since the 8GB test area is actually quite indicative of full drive performance in this case because its only a 10GB drive

 

[conlan]

Good news... thanks