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Lousy Internal Zip Drive Performance

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by cbach1997 1 view

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Back when I was building P3-500's on Abit BX6 boards and the like (Tyan S1854's as well), Internal IDE 100MB Zip Drives would perform well, holding at about 600KB/sec.

Well, all the new Pentium III boards and even Athlon boards (AZZA, ASUS, Microstar, Epox, and even some Intel boards for P3's in Dell Dimension 4100's) all perform lousy when it comes to writing. Read performance is on the money, but writing is from super slow to UNGODLY slow.

Via released a patch for their 686b chipsets (which some of these boards are based on,) but that didn't help. I don't really think it's just one drive, because I've got 5 computers running from Win98SE - Win2k, and 4 separate drives (2 are 100MB ATAPI's, the others are 250MB).

Had anybody run into this and found a solution for performance improvement other than buying the USB version (which hauls ass just like it should)?

By the way, I've tried new OS installs on defragmented hard drives, all that jazz. I've even tried motherboard IDE service packs and the latest version of Iomegaware.

Thanks,
cbach1997@hotmail.com

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by cbach1997

P.S. - Please don't send any comments regarding this "User Deleted" baloney that this site puts on most people's questions. I have an actual account which apparently for this question didn't register correctly. Thanks,
cbach1997@hotmail.com

by paslebcomputer

check to see if you have udma checked off and uncheck it set it to pio only dma slows down the zip and get the newest version of the drivers from iomega. it worked for me.. and user deleted is all over this site inregards to Q's "And" A's makes a person wonder if they RTFM...

by cbach1997

Finally, Iomega added a patch for Via chipsets - haven't had a chance to try it yet, hopefully this will help. They still have problems though on Intel chipsets as well (The Dell Dimension 4100's for example).

Any additional ideas or suggestionsare welcome. Thanks,

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