I'm very clueless about this...
I have an ASUS A7V motherboard, with an Athlon 1GHz.
Have a couple of Western Digital ATA100 hard drives
(40G + 80G).
So, here's the puzzler: when connected to the "default"
IDE connectors of the motherboard (which I'm assuming
are ATA66), the speed reported is 3.5MBytes per second.
(the report is produced by a software that does video
capture and edition -- it evaluates the speed of the
disk to see if it is enough; to my great surprise, the
software complained that the disk wasn't fast enough!!!
(a 7200 RPM, ATA100 connected to presumably an ATA66
interface??)
I defragmented the drive (although it wasn't that
fragmented... I reinstalled the system not two weeks
ago). No change.
In fact, even more puzzling: at first I thought the
problem was that both drives were connected to the
same cable (one is primary master, the other is
primary slave). So I connected one drive to each
cable, and disconnected the CD-ROM, such that the
*only* thing connected to each interface is *one*
hard drive... To my surprise, the speed reported
was about 5% slower (yes, **SLOWER**).
When I connect the drives to the ATA100 (which is
not a very good deal for me, since I can't seem to
make the Promise controller work with Linux), then
the speed reported is 35MBytes per second (10 times
faster!!). If I connect them to the ATA133 PCI card
(the one that comes with Maxtor hard drives), then
the speed reported is the same -- if I connect the
Maxtor drives to the ATA133, then I get 46MB / sec...
Frankly, these numbers don't really make sense to
me. Am I doing something wrong... *cough*, I'll
*cough* rephrase... *What* am I doing wrong? :-)
Thanks!
Carlos
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