Slow access to networked drives, SATA related

[Henderson]

When I access a shared directory on the 2nd computer from the 1st one with a SATA drive installed as the boot drive, access times to the largest directories are as much as 15 seconds.

If I boot up with an IDE drive though also on the system, access times to that same large directory on the 2nd computer is only 1 second, almost instant access.

Can anyone think of a reason why this happens and how to fix it other than to just use the SATA drive as the 2nd drive and boot from the IDE drive?

System:
WinXP Pro with all updates/service packs
A7N8X Deluxe v 2.0 motherboard
AMD 2500+ Barton CPU
Antec 450W p/s
120GB SATA WD1200JD
40GB EIDE WD drive
MSI TI4600 video card
SBLive 5.1 sound card
Linksys BEFSR41 Router

[amdkt7]

I would assume that unless you ghosted your IDE drive to the SATA drive they are not the same. Did you install seperatly to each drive?

It sounds like a software setting, and has nothing to do with the drive being SATA.

[Henderson]

WinXP Pro is installed on both drives and installed the correct way, one is not ghosted or copied to the other.

[amdkt7]

There must be something different, perhaps a different driver, or some setting that is different. Sometimes the order in which you install software will effect default settings or operation.

Maybe try removing your network and reinstalling will clear it up.

[rpertusio]

do you notice any local 'slowness' associated with the SATA drive?

Asus' latest BIOS revision has an updated SATA ROM. If you feel comfortable flashing the BIOS, you could try that:
Asus A7N8X Deluxe C1007 firmware (for rev 2.0 board)

- rp

[Henderson]

Network was removed and reset up, no change

I went through all devices in the device manager on both drives when they booted to verify that everything had the same drivers installed, they do.

There's no slowness when accessing either drive on the system itself. The 15 second delay is only when accessing directories on the 2nd networked computer from this one with the serial drive. Accessing large directories on this computer from the 2nd networked computer also has no delay and works great.

I'm currently running Asus' newest BIOS which is 1007. I've tried various BIOS version from 1004 to 1007, plus 3rd party Uber BIOS, various SATA drivers as well, and the same slow access time has been the result.

This is frustrating heh. Thanks for suggestions, willing to try anything.

[blubomber]

Are you running a virus scanner set to protect network drives?

We had this same problem where it work and it turned out that each workstation that had the "protect network drives" option enabled, would experience slow access times to networked directories. Close to the 15sec you have described.

[Henderson]

I'm running Norton's SystemWorks 2003 which includes their antivirus software. But I have it on both drives, and also on the 2nd computer, and set up the same. Booting from the IDE drive with AV running doesn't give me any delay; and accessing even the largest directories on this computer from the 2nd one with AV running doesn't give me any delay.

To be absolutely sure though I uninstalled it from the serial drive, unfortunately didn't cut down the 15 second access time on the networked drives doing that.

/cry

[Steve R Jones]

Speed up network (LAN) browsing in Win2K/XP
Open the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE)

Rename the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
\Software
\Microsoft
\Windows
\CurrentVersion
\Explorer
\RemoteComputer
\Namespace
\{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

For example, you can rename it to:

DISABLED {XXD6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}

This change prevents the browsing computer from checking for scheduled tasks on the remote machine before connecting, which is apparently the reason for the slowness.

You can check this Knowledge Base article for further reference:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=kb;en-us;Q245800

[Henderson]

It sounds like that's exactly my problem, but the fix you posted didn't get rid of the delay, didn't even lessen the delay at all.

What's very odd is that this happens when I access the directories on the 2nd computer from the mapped drive in Explorer.

But if I first go in Explorer all the way down to My Network Places, and access the same drive and directory from there, I have minimal delay, maybe takes 2 seconds.