Hi cdrov, and welcome to the forum!
Hi to you Clintfan thank you and nice to meeting you. I understood today how important you are. Sorry but i am new to forums and i don't know how to use quotes
Although the mobo claims support of Prescott, the circuit layout was designed years before Prescott came out, and there are issues. Many Prescotts will
only run at 2.8GHz even though their core speed is higher, so that could be hurting your performance.
I have also read some
Prescott industry reviews suggesting that due to internal architecture of the new chip, it can actually run slower than previous revisions... and we're all familiar with this effect in the OS arena: newer OS's continue to need more and more horsepower compared to their older ancestors.
I understand that this is somehow true. I noticed reduced performance for a 3,2 since the older 2.8 was a little more responsive. But i dont want to believe that the new processor could be slower than my previous 2.8, Am I wrong??
54MB/s is the normal rate we should expect with the current drive technology, but it depends on how you measure it. You should be able to achieve this when copying, say, a 1GB file between the drive on your PRI_RAID port, and your SATA1 drive (or any of the other drives on the ICH5). However, if you copy the same file amongst the other ICH5 drives, your readings may be lower, perhaps even significantly lower.
I think that the opposite is happening. When i try to copy among ICH5 (Primary and Secondary master ) I need little time but when i am trying to copy from Primariry Raid to SATA 1 i need more time.
Today from asus support they suggested that i connect the SATA Drive to SATA RAID1 and not SATA1 ( i mentioned that i dont want a raid configuration - if that matters at the moment)
I read somewhere i n the forum that we should prefer sata1 and not sat raid since it refers to ICH5 giving more bandwith am i correct?
What do you mean by "external" drive? 3GB in 300-600 seconds is about 10 to 5MB/s, which would be slow for SATA but respectable for a USB 1.1 "external" drive. Of course if you meant the internal SATA drive on the SATA1 port, you've got a problem.
I got a WD200JB and an external enclosure with oxford chip. Sisoft Sandra gives 19MB/sec but as you say i get 10 at most. The connection is 1394. When i used USB 2.0 the results in the long run where worse (frame drop when capturing video)
I'm guessing you chose the Seagate model ST3200822AS
correct, which is a 200GB Barracuda 7200.7 SATA drive. Make sure the jumper block, on the connect end of the drive on the side opposite the power connector, has NO jumpers on it. Also make sure your data cabe is connecting securely at both ends, but isn't strapped down
everything OK.
Most importantly make sure you installed the
Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility which, in IDE mode, is the only other thing that affects your SATA1 port. (You
are talking about the "SATA1" port, right? Of the 4 ports on your board, this is the second one down from the top, and is driven by your ICH5 Southbridge chip.)
If you have not installed that ICSIU yet, you should do so immediately, and use the "AFTER" method outlined in the link. EVEN IF you already installed it, in view of your dififculties I think it would be worth RE-installing it, using the AFTER method, because something may have gotten corrupted. IN fact it sounds like your drive may have dropped into a slow-performing basic PIO data mode, possibly due to lack of the proper INF configuration data, which the ICSIU provides.
There's no uninstalling... you just update drivers right over the top of what you have. I just did this myself last week using the latest ZIP file from Intel, updating drivers one by one in DeviceManager from SAFE mode, to try to cure some slowness in my system. That reinstall went fine and I get 52-54MB/s (although my problem --slow first-time opening of programs-- remains, and seems to be shared by many others on TSF's XP forum, but with no solutions in sight).
Hope this helps,
I am going to do the above right away. I can not mention how much help you are. Thank you very much. I will post my findings soon
-clintfan