Recent content by jason978

Well, I think I got it all settled now. The only aam tool I could get to work was the hitachi cd tool, the version on the floppy would not work for some reason. I found some new raid drivers too and that fixed the cpu issue. I had to get them from the Sis website, not the Asus website. The...

I tried that program but it said "no ata hard disk with acoustic management found!".

Here's a pic of the hd tach. http://home.comcast.net/~redsox1/wd6400.jpg Does that slow read at the beginning mean anything? How about the hi read times? the drive is going to be for os. I have a samsung sataI drive that will used for data backup, pictures and stuff. Thanks for your...

nothing else, I have a fresh winxp installed.

I'm getting low burst rates, hi random access rates and high cpu usage. According to Hd tach 3.0.4.0: I'm running the tests after a fresh boot with nothing running. Burst rate: 115 ave read: 90 random access: 15.7 CPU usage: 15% Hd tune yields similar results. Also, looking at...