IBM 60GXP scores HORRIBLY in sandra..

[Chevy]

I just recently defragmented the drive, and still scored a 12,000 in sandra. An ATA66 7200RPM hard drive scores 17,000 and an ATA100 7200RPM drive scores 24,000. Im doing half as good as i should be.

I just used HDtach, how are these scores?:

http://chevy123.netfirms.com/HDTACH.JPG

Anyone know what the problem is?

I also have a Maxtor drive set as a slave under the IBM, it scores perfectly - 26,000.

[SMOKE_SKULL]

What O/S are you using? Maybe DMA is not enabled for the drive!

[Chevy]

Originally posted by SMOKE_SKULL
What O/S are you using? Maybe DMA is not enabled for the drive!

I'm running windows XP, and 'DMA if availible" is selected for both hard drives.

[Chevy]

Sorry guys, let me put my system specs up:

XP 2100+
ECS K7S5A
Crucial PC133 ( soon to be DDR )
1 IBM 40gig 60GXP 7200RPM ATA100
1 Maxtor 40gig 7200RPM ATA100
Geforce 3 TI500
Sb live Value
Windows XP

[4.6POWER]

The read speed is fine, but that random access time is way too high... it should be at least half that. I would expect ~9ms random seek time. Try checking to make sure you have an 80 pin cable... it should have really thin wires. Go over master/slave connections & jumper settings too.

[Chevy]

Originally posted by 4.6POWER
The read speed is fine, but that random access time is way too high... it should be at least half that. I would expect ~9ms random seek time. Try checking to make sure you have an 80 pin cable... it should have really thin wires. Go over master/slave connections & jumper settings too.

Im definitly on a good cable because the maxtor drive on that same cable ( slave ) scored fine. Master/Slave connections are fine :(

[Talon]

ok, just to clarify: Is the Maxtor an ATA66 and the IBM ATA 100? The reason I ask is because if they are sharing the same IDE cable, the IBM will only run at ATA66. Drives sharing the same IDE cable can only go as fast as the slowest drive on the chain. If this is not the case, however, you can disregard this entire comment! :D

[Chevy]

Both are ATA100's !! :(

[Chevy]

Well, I just formatted and now the IBM scores better than the Maxtor :)