Hi Folks,
I have two 320 GB Seagate 7200.10 HDDs in my system.
One of those HDD suddenly became very slow and copying files took long time. Writing DVDs maxed at 5-6X speeds.
So I checked the read speed by HD Tach and got the foll result:
The 1st HDD shows a normal read speed of 66 MB/s while the 2nd one shows 11 MB/s with CPU utilisation at 43% (normally should be 1%)
Also while saving the results the 2nd HDD was showing interface as ATA instead of SATA, while the 1st HDD was showing SATA.
I tried to uninstall the HDD and restart the PC, still it is showing same speeds. I checked the BIOS and everything seems right. I also tried to change the SATA Spread Spectrum to DISABLED, but to no success...
One of the IDE/ATA/ATAPI Controller properties in Device Manager shows as PIO Mode instead of DMA... Is that the problem? If Yes, how to solve it?
Please help me out...
I have two 320 GB Seagate 7200.10 HDDs in my system.
One of those HDD suddenly became very slow and copying files took long time. Writing DVDs maxed at 5-6X speeds.
So I checked the read speed by HD Tach and got the foll result:
The 1st HDD shows a normal read speed of 66 MB/s while the 2nd one shows 11 MB/s with CPU utilisation at 43% (normally should be 1%)
Also while saving the results the 2nd HDD was showing interface as ATA instead of SATA, while the 1st HDD was showing SATA.
I tried to uninstall the HDD and restart the PC, still it is showing same speeds. I checked the BIOS and everything seems right. I also tried to change the SATA Spread Spectrum to DISABLED, but to no success...
One of the IDE/ATA/ATAPI Controller properties in Device Manager shows as PIO Mode instead of DMA... Is that the problem? If Yes, how to solve it?
Please help me out...
