check that DMA is enabled for the drive, look at the SATA modes you have=20
available in bios if you cant enable DMA.

also look to see what is using the CPU

On 24/11/10 10:33, ivp wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've replaced a failed IDE drive with a SATA and notice that
> at least two applications are taking much longer than before.
> My uninformed guess is that the data buss is not properly
> configured
>
> The previous set-up was
>
> Primary Master 80GB IDE (XP boot)
> Primary Slave 160GB IDE (failed)
> Secondary Master DVD IDE
> 320GB USB external
> 1TB USB external
>
> New set-up is
>
> Primary Slave 80GB IDE (XP boot)
> Secondary Master DVD IDE
> 3rd Master 500GB SATA
> 320GB USB external
> 1TB USB external
>
> For the time-being I preferred to keep the 80GB as the boot drive
> so I don't need to spend time re-installing the hardware, and Desktop
> is still the same etc
>
> Two instances of slowing down -
>
> Writing a DVD data disk. It used to take around 15 mins @ 8x,
> now it takes 80 mins and CPU useage is almost 100%. Even the
> mouse pointer moves jerkily. Verification is down to 1.2x, it used
> to be>  8x
>
> Processing a video from avi to rmvb with Real Producer. Time was
> generally about 1.5x file duration, eg 30 min clip would take 45 min.
> Now it would be almost 2 hours
>
> In both cases, particularly video processing, I note that as the
> conversion progresses it gets slower and slower, as if there's some
> increasing bottlenecking. I've not found a source-destination
> drive combination that's noticeably faster. Perhaps whatever I
> chose has to go through some common point which is the problem
>
> Inter-drive (any source-destination) copying seems reasonably fast
> though
>
> It's a dual-processor mobo and I think that now one of the two
> processors is shouldering almost all of the burden, as seen in Task
> Manager. I'm pretty sure that previously the sharing was 80:20,
> but now it's 100:0
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated
>
> TIA
>
> Joe
>
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