HD Tach: Terrible Results

[TheMajor]

I would swap the drives. make sure to configure bios to boot from the other channel.

 

[GrayT]

Still the same thing happens.

 

[EricB]

maybe you got older ide cables?

 

[TheMajor]

Even old IDE cables shouldn't limit it to 3MB/s or PIO modes. An old 40conductor IDE cable supports up to UDMA33 (maximum of 33MB/s burst-speeds)

 

[GrayT]

maybe you got older ide cables?

I replaced them with some PCToys UltraATA 133 Cables, so that's not the problem.

 

[TheMajor]

Rightclick ur harddrives in mycomputer. Make sure caching is enabled and run hdtach again.

 

[GrayT]

Both were enabled previously. Check again and they still are, did the test with them on after checking and same results.

Thanks for everyones help, especially you 'TheMajor' I do appreciate everything said.

 

[Nubius]

When was the last time you've done a format? Even if it's been a while it'd take a lot of junk to slow it down to that point... my grandmas 10gb that came out of a 6 year old PeoplePC machine doesn't read that slow =/

How about checking to see if the drive is severely fragmented?

A lots already been covered and I'm strapped for ideas on what would cause it to do that.

 

[TheMajor]

i dunno where hdtach writes temp data to bench read and random access (if any)
but a defragged hd should not affect burst speeds.

 

[Nubius]

Yeah but ideas are running low...key word is SHOULD not lol, but in my experience with computers they generally do a lot of things they shouldn't. But at this point I'm stumped =/