Seagate 80gb IDE running slow

[andyrice_2000]

Hi everyone, this is my first time so I hope you can help me,

I built my own computer a little while back and have had no problems, but recently I have added an 80GB Seagate drive to my machine.

My setup is as follows:-

40GB Maxtor - Master Primary
DVD-16X OEM316B - Slave Primary

80GB Seagate - Master Secondary
Pioneer A03 DVDR - Slave Secondary

What am I doing wrong?? I do a lot of video editing so create a lot of MPG 2 files, when I now try to play them back from that drive they run really slow and jolt, yet small files play ok, but also when transferring one file to another drive its taking almost 30/40 minutes.

Since this change my system has started restarting for no reason, I think this is possibly a graphics card issue so am ordering another one, but if you can help with the hard drive fault you will be my god

Thanks people.

Andy

[dunbar]

For each IDE channel, the slowest device sets the speed for the whole channel. If the DVDR is setting the hard disk below Seagates ATA capability there will be a lallback to the slower speed.

Which OS, and if Windows anything, which service packs are installed?

Welcome to TechIMO!

[andyrice_2000]

ahh I see, so you think the DVDR could be slowing the 80GB down?

System Spec is as below:-

Pentium 4 2GHZ
768DDR RAM
Windows XP Professional (Service Pack 1)

Whats the best way of finding out if the Pioneer A03 does not meet the 80GB standard?

thanks for the very speedy reply

[cipher-six]

A quick fix would be to pop open the case and put both HDDs on the first IDE and the opticals on the secondary. That should make operation faster.

I'm not sure about actual speed tests but usually opticals are slower. Doing the same on my old computer cut the boot up time by 70%! And I was wondering why it was taking so long to recognize IDE devices

[shahani]

I think on modern Mother Boards, a CD drive will not slow a hard drive on the same IDE connector. This was an issue with older boards.

Did you check the DMA settings in Device Manager as well as put everything on Auto under BIOS for IDE 0 and IDE 1?