[Dezman]

Not sure if any others have this issue, but on building an system with p4c800 e deluxe , 3 gig p4 800mhz, kingston hyperx ddr 1 gig, had immediate issues with ATAPI / ASPI when trying to burn disks. then, found no solutions till I ran a performance test on the IDE throughput from the brand new ata100 hard drives. 2 of em. the board, using the primary and secondary IDE, is getting less than 4 meg per sec thoughput. I took the drives and put then in an ata66 machine, and got around 30 meg per sec. put them in my old P2Bs mobo, and they ran at 20 meg per sec. Have an open ticket with ASUS now. waiting on them....

Any similar out there using primary IDE (P-ATA)?
if having ASPI / ATAPI errors, test HD throughput. IF using NERO -
can open the properties page, select the "cache" page and test HD speeds there.

Found several having errros that I wonde3r are truly caused by similar poor EIDE throughput on the southbridge.

 

[Dezman]

yes, thankx for the pointer ! I work in IT, (makes no dif, I know !) and have hundreds of machines worldwide and am baffled with this one.
I am using only the cables ( ata 133) that were supplied with the board !!
but I can use the same hard drive(s) in my P2Bs MOBO using the old 40 pin cables there and get over 19 meg per sec. take same HDs and put in my old p3v4x ata66 system with 80 pin cables and get correct megs per sec min for that bus.
I am still waiting for a Tech at ASUS on why or how this new board could possibly have such a sluggish data rate in the primary and secondary IDE . this thing was put together, drives formatted, os added, mobo drivers added, and a burner added. all burns failed which led to this ...errors were reports "unknown cdr error ... or ATAPI error... 4 hours later , there is no prob with the burners or ASPI , issue is the HD thoughput and buffer undreruns
I pulled a very trusty plextor burner out of my p2bs system and ,,, put in this one same failure could not even burn an 8x cd ( 1.2 meg per sec). I will post whatever the outcome is, as I am concerned, my trust of ASUS mobo's just plummeted. the first tech at ASUS asked how I came to my conclusion on HD thoughput, and after my reply about hard benchmarking on three different systems, he said he would have to escalate the call,,,,,
I feel he was unprepared for me to have test systems to test all my hardware/software and benchmark the HD perf to this mobo as the issue.