I have been going nuts trying to understand why my P2T2 with AMD
K6-2/400 is sooooooo slow!
All the diagnostics [wintune, sisoft sandra, etc] show the amd
cranking along at full speed, as compared to other similar chips.
But the system is so unbelieveably slow---I mean slow, and I've tried
everything submitted to me, cache, CMOS, etc.
About to give up, I decided to burn a CD of existing software to have
a record, when the SCSI Adaptex/Plextor CDR would not pass the test!
[I've made dozens of CD's]. The CDR diagnostics shows this:
13.6 maxtor hard drive, partitioned: [c, e, f] 166 to 196 kb/sec
3.2 western digital, partitioned, [d, g] 2056 to 6144 kb/sec.
Now, how the hell does a new maxtor HD run so slow? More important,
what can be done?
I toyed with the bus master hd controller, but it should affect both
the hard drives, right? Why is the maxtor so slow compared to the WD?
Would a new 33/m drive controller help?
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