slowbiznatch
Gawd
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- Oct 24, 2001
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We're working on 3 machines (all built identically several weeks ago) that appear to have some significant problems with I/O. Bart's Stuff Test and HDTach report the max I/O speeds at about 3 mb/sec. When the inital system came in with this problem, I swapped in our test drive (Seagate 7200.7 ST380013A8) and had no problem loading Windows and running the benchmarks. The drive was performing basic I/O at about 50 mb/sec. We went ahead and swapped in a replacement drive in this system and chalked it up to a defective drive. Now we have 2 more systems of the same order that are exhibiting the same symptoms. It appears that this batch of drives might not have DMA enabled on the hardware of the actual drive, but I'm not entirely sure how to check. Here are the system specs:
Intel D915GUXLK
P4 540J
SPI 350W PSU
2x 256MB DDR2-533
XP Pro
WD800JD (I'll get the exact model number if you need it)
ASUS EN6200GE (GeForce 6200 PCI-E)
Let me know if you guys have any ideas. I've scoured the web trying to find out if WD released a bad batch of drives or if there is any aparent compatibility problem with this drive and have had no luck finding anything. I didn't search the forums because I'm an avid reader and don't recall anything like this.
Thanks.
Intel D915GUXLK
P4 540J
SPI 350W PSU
2x 256MB DDR2-533
XP Pro
WD800JD (I'll get the exact model number if you need it)
ASUS EN6200GE (GeForce 6200 PCI-E)
Let me know if you guys have any ideas. I've scoured the web trying to find out if WD released a bad batch of drives or if there is any aparent compatibility problem with this drive and have had no luck finding anything. I didn't search the forums because I'm an avid reader and don't recall anything like this.
Thanks.