I just replaced my PII-350 with an Athlon
850 and AMD approved main board. I also replaced my old 5400 rpm with a new Maxtor 7200 rpm, Ultra ATA 100. The new mainboard
supports all the lastest IDE interfaces. I have the IDE interface set to “Auto” in the BIOS. I have not been impressed with the
system’s performance. I just ran a system performance test against a baseline Asus Athlon 750. My system out-perfomed the baseline in all but the disk tests, where it resulted in a poor average 3 MB/sec xfer rate.
When I built the system, I set up the new faster drive as a slave and used Norton Ghost to xfer the drive contents. Was this a mistake? My drive is suppsed to be able to
have 100 MB/sec xfer rates. Do I have to
re-install Windows 98 from scratch? Do slave
devices have any effect on the xfer rate I am getting from the master device? Is there a utility that can tell me what interface is being run on the drive? Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
Paul