What are typical speeds for the Seagate Perpendicular Drives?

[Smartazz]

I ran HDTune on my 320GB Seagate Perp. recording hard drive and I only got around 4mb/s read and write speed. It's connected by IDE along with the DVD drive and I made sure that the HDD was the master and not the slave. Thanks in advance.

 

[F1shF4t]

Your drive is probably running in PIO mode.

Go to Device manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > Primary or secondary IDE chanell
(depending where u connected your drive) > Properties and make sure under advanced settings the transfer mode is set to "DMA if avalable"

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: Dark Cupcake
Your drive is probably running in PIO mode.

Go to Device manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > Primary or secondary IDE chanell
(depending where u connected your drive) > Properties and make sure under advanced settings the transfer mode is set to "DMA if avalable"

It was already set to DMA if possible, but it says that it's in PIO mode currently. Anyway to fix that?

 

[RebateMonger]

Check the System Event Log for hard disk errors. Too many errors, and a drive will go into PIO mode.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: RebateMonger
Check the System Event Log for hard disk errors. Too many errors, and a drive will go into PIO mode.

Can it fix these errors?

 

[RebateMonger]

Do you HAVE errors? If so, what's the EXACT wording of the errors?

 

[nullpointerus]

Originally posted by: Smartazz
I ran HDTune on my 320GB Seagate Perp. recording hard drive and I only got around 4mb/s read and write speed. It's connected by IDE along with the DVD drive and I made sure that the HDD was the master and not the slave. Thanks in advance.

That's generally considered a bad idea. IIRC, IDE devices on the same channel slow down to match the speed of the slowest device on that channel.

Put the HDD on a separate cable (i.e. channel) if at all possible, and you should see a noticable performance increase.

If you absolutely *must* keep both on the same cable, then the only way to get the HDD out of PIO mode is to make sure that the DVD drive is running in DMA speeds -- the highest you'll see is likely just Ultra DMA 2. HDDs do Ultra DMA 5+, for reference.

 

[Smartazz]

Originally posted by: nullpointerus

Originally posted by: Smartazz
I ran HDTune on my 320GB Seagate Perp. recording hard drive and I only got around 4mb/s read and write speed. It's connected by IDE along with the DVD drive and I made sure that the HDD was the master and not the slave. Thanks in advance.

That's generally considered a bad idea. IIRC, IDE devices on the same channel slow down to match the speed of the slowest device on that channel.

Put the HDD on a separate cable (i.e. channel) if at all possible, and you should see a noticable performance increase.

If you absolutely *must* keep both on the same cable, then the only way to get the HDD out of PIO mode is to make sure that the DVD drive is running in DMA speeds -- the highest you'll see is likely just Ultra DMA 2. HDDs do Ultra DMA 5+, for reference.

Well unfortunatly they have to run on the same channel. If I bought an SATA Dvd burner and sold my IDE DVD drive, would I be able to do Ultra DMA 5+?

 

[Tegeril]

The problem is not going to just randomly go away even if it says DMA if available. To get the drive to get back out of PIO mode, you need to right click on whichever channel it's on in the Device Manager and uninstall it. Then restart. Should be back in DMA.

 

[F1shF4t]

Originally posted by: nullpointerus

Originally posted by: Smartazz
I ran HDTune on my 320GB Seagate Perp. recording hard drive and I only got around 4mb/s read and write speed. It's connected by IDE along with the DVD drive and I made sure that the HDD was the master and not the slave. Thanks in advance.

That's generally considered a bad idea. IIRC, IDE devices on the same channel slow down to match the speed of the slowest device on that channel.

Put the HDD on a separate cable (i.e. channel) if at all possible, and you should see a noticable performance increase.

If you absolutely *must* keep both on the same cable, then the only way to get the HDD out of PIO mode is to make sure that the DVD drive is running in DMA speeds -- the highest you'll see is likely just Ultra DMA 2. HDDs do Ultra DMA 5+, for reference.

They dont slow down to match speed (maybe in old mainboards this was the case but never ones can support different speeds). The only reason why u wouldn't want to put an hdd with an optical drive is that the access to optical drives is much slower and u will not have access to the hdd while the system is waiting for the optical drive.

Try disconnecting both devices then configure the hdd to work properly, then add the burner.