Re: SATA drive and Windows Explorer having a problem in file transfer
From: R. McCarty (PcEngWork-NoSpam__at_mindspring.com)
Date: 09/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 18:44:26 GMT
>From your system description, the pertinent data seems to be that all
four of your PATA devices are populated. How are these ATA drives
and DVDs configured ? (Pri/Sec - Master/Slave).
Since SATA is single channel and fully IRQ sharing compliant, I don't
think IRQ mapping will affect performance.
What DMA mode are the hard drives (UDMA 4, 5) ? Recent or older
models. How much buffering do the drives have ? Since SATA has a
greater throughput, I'd concentrate on the IDE/ATAPI devices as the
culprit.
"Jouni S" <JouniS@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A1917143-4965-4839-93C4-91B9F2B26BA2@microsoft.com...
>I have an Epox motherboard with VIA chips (incl. KT600), AMD Athlon
>XP2700+,
> 512 MB RAM (400 MHz), 2 IDE ATA hard drives, 2 IDE DVD drives and a
> recently
> installed Maxtor 160 GB SATA drive. I've installed the latest BIOS
> updates,
> XP upgrades including SP2 and VIA's latest 4in1 and v3.00 SATA RAID
> driver.
> The PC hasn't had problems when I save, copy or move data in and between
> the
> IDE hard drives. However, when I copy or move files from an IDE hard drive
> to
> the SATA drive, the whole transfer (the biggest ones I've tried where 5-10
> GBs) is sometimes fine, but more often it gets only partly done before
> suddenly either my PC tilts and boots or I get the good old "Windows
> Explorer
> error message".
> Reading from the SATA drive (e.g. DV AVI video to Media player) seems to
> work fine.
> I've tried a.o. by changing the SATA Interrupt setting in the BIOS to
> IntB,
> with no improvement in the situation. Also tested with slowing down PC
> speed
> by decreasing the multiplier, but no success with that either.
> What might be the magic behind the problem and the fix.
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