Seagate giving problems

[kiepie]

Have to 80 GIG Seagate HD that were bought together. Use both of them as slave's.

But when I copy files between my primary to my first HD, it copies at above 15000KB/s.

The other one at 333KB/s. What can be wrong.

Use the same IDE cable. Both is IDE, no serial ports.
Both have partitions.
Both work as a master aswell.

Damn irretates me, takes forever to copy 80GIGS at 333kb/s.

 

[LabAnimal]

You're not making that much sense :

between my primary to my first HD

Primary and First are the same thing!.

Both have partitions.

Hard-Drives won't work without a formatted partition, so clearly they have partitions if you can copy onto either of them...

1. Your boot drive should be primary, the other secondary.
2. If they're both on the same cable, try splitting them so that they are both on their own cable - could speed up things.
3. Are they both identical drive models ?
4. Are they both formatted the same? IE: Fat32 / NTFS ?
5. If all else fails : GET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE DOING. If you're in Durban, PM me, i'll be glad to help.
6. Yes, I'm cranky this time of the morning

Both work as a master aswell.

You can't have both as Master on a Single IDE cable. - clearly this is where the problem lies!.

 

[killadoob]

my money is on the same cable

 

[LabAnimal]

Killadoob - you're up way too early... : )

off to work - CAN'T believe i said "YES, I'll work today"

 

[bekdik]

Sounds like the bits have tightened up and are sticking to the disk surface. A light tap with a 10K mallet sometimes helps.

Tomorrow I will post the instructions and disclaimer about not trying this at home, making sure the disk is switched on etc etc

 

[killadoob]

lol

neither could i lab

 

[kiepie]

You're not making that much sense :
Primary and First are the same thing!.


Hard-Drives won't work without a formatted partition, so clearly they have partitions if you can copy onto either of them...

1. Your boot drive should be primary, the other secondary.
2. If they're both on the same cable, try splitting them so that they are both on their own cable - could speed up things.
3. Are they both identical drive models ?
4. Are they both formatted the same? IE: Fat32 / NTFS ?
5. If all else fails : GET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE DOING. If you're in Durban, PM me, i'll be glad to help.
6. Yes, I'm cranky this time of the morning


You can't have both as Master on a Single IDE cable. - clearly this is where the problem lies!.

Sorry about that. Let me call the 2 hard drives , harddrive A and harddrive B.

Only connect one HD at a time. Use the 300GIG and HD A.
And then HD B with the 300 GIG.

But when I copy data between the 300GIG and HARDDRIVE A it is speeds above 15000kb/s.
But between the 300 GIG and HARDDRIVE B it only copies at 333kb/s.

Don't know how to explain it better.

 

[LabAnimal]

you still haven't told us if harddrive A and harddrive B are:

1. set appart as master and slave, or
2. if the drives are both formatted as NTFS and/or FAT32...

Lets establish these 2 first, then we'll move onto the next

 

[kiepie]

you still haven't told us if harddrive A and harddrive B are:

1. set appart as master and slave, or
2. if the drives are both formatted as NTFS and/or FAT32...

Lets establish these 2 first, then we'll move onto the next

1. Not sure what you asking. I use my 300 gig as my primary and hard drive A & B as slaves. (only one slave at a time)

2. Both A & B is NTFS

 

[LabAnimal]

okay, assuming both harddrives are exactly the same model's: look at the jumper configuration, besides that one is set to master, and the other to slave, are there any other jumpers on your slave drive?

01. Have you tried swapping the drives around and if so, did the problem swap to the other other drive ?
02. Have you tried a different IDE cable?
03. In your Cmos, (if it allows you too) are both drives setup the same IE: ATA100/133/150 ?
04. Have you tested the drive with the seagate software ?