SATA HDD - Making PC sluggish

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Cool G5

Cool G5

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I am facing a strange problem guys. Whenever I connect my 640 GB WD SATA HDD, my pc becomes sluggish. It takes around 2-3 minutes to boot the whole system(XP). Opensuse refuses to boot when the HDD is connected.

I called a technician but he was clueless & hence suggested me to go for a external SATA casing. Also the idiot says, your system is low than that needed for running such a huge HDD. I found this crap. I mean how can a p4 2.0 GHZ, 768 MB ram & 512 MB gfx card be not enough for a 640 GB HDD?

Please help me out. I don't want to waste my money on this silly so called PC technicians.
 
paroh

paroh

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Make sure that all wires are properly connected. And also make sure that ur bios is full updated and also make sure that ur hard disk is running on udma 5 if it is running on udma 2

then use this method to make it to udma 5


Re-enable DMA using the Registry Editor

Run REGEDIT. Go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

It has subkeys like 0000, 0001, 0002, etc. Normally 0001 is the primary IDE channel, 0002 the secondary, but other numbers can occur under certain circumstances. Check the DriverDesc value to see which one it is.

Delete MasterIdDataChecksum or SlaveIdDataChecksum, depending on whether the device in question is attached as master or slave, but it can't actually hurt to delete both. Reboot. The drive DMA capabilities will be redetected.

Open Device Manager again and check whether the device is now actually using DMA mode.

Note As in my case i search and delete the keys name MasterIdDataChecksum and SlaveIdDataChecksum from the registry and after restart my disk is running on UDM 5
 
R

rahuljin

Broken In
hello , i have a 750gb sata 2 in sata 1 mode, p4 3ghz, 2gb ddr2 ram, palit 4670 graphic card . the report of HDD inspector is attached.
it shows that performance, reliability, etc. is degarded and are at 46%.
please tell me how to correct it ?
i try to follow your steps but there is no MasterIdDataChecksum or SlaveIdDataChecksum there.
how do i know the umda version ??

edit--- the txt file is not opening properly after upload.

The report was generated by Hard Drive Inspector v. 3.0 Professional (Build # 195)
on Saturday, December 27, 2008 12:04:43 AM.
HDD Information Service v. 3.1 (Build # 347).

System information
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Windows version : Windows Vista (Build 6001 : Service Pack 1)
Processor info : 0GHz
Physical memory available to Windows : 2094156 KB (34% usage)
Video settings
Resolution : 1152 by 864 pixels
Color depth : Highest 32 (bit)
Refresh rate : 3145774 Herz
Network
IP Address :
Motherboard
Name : D925XECV2
Manufacturer : Intel Corporation
Serial Number : BTCV52400938
Version : AAC83685-205
Computer Name : Rahul-PC
User Name : SYSTEM
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

User Name : SYSTEM
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1) IDE\CDROMTSSTCORP_CD/DVDW_TS-H552U_______________US06____\5&105CE2A0&1&0.0.0
Name: TSSTcorp CD/DVDW TS-H552U ATA Device

Driver installed from C:\Windows\INF\cdrom.inf [cdrom_install]. 1 file(s) used by driver:

C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys (6.0.6001.18000)
2) IDE\DISKST3750330AS_____________________________SD15____\4&17A85116&0&0.0.0
Name: ST3750330AS

Driver installed from C:\Windows\INF\disk.inf [disk_install]. 1 file(s) used by driver:

C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\disk.sys (6.0.6001.18000)
3) PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_2652&SUBSYS_43568086&REV_03\3&11583659&0&FA
Name: Intel(R) 82801FR SATA RAID Controller

Driver installed from C:\Windows\INF\oem2.inf [iaStor_Inst_RAID]. 1 file(s) used by driver:

C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\iaStor.sys (4.0.0.6211)
4) SCSI\CDROM&VEN_JAFQHM&PROD_5E3C96VC&REV_1.03\5&2C4F72D4&0&000000
Name: JAFQHM 5E3C96VC SCSI CdRom Device

Driver installed from C:\Windows\INF\cdrom.inf [cdrom_install]. 1 file(s) used by driver:

C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys (6.0.6001.18000)
5) SCSI\CDROM&VEN_JAFQHM&PROD_5E3C96VC&REV_1.03\5&2C4F72D4&0&000100
Name: JAFQHM 5E3C96VC SCSI CdRom Device

Driver installed from C:\Windows\INF\cdrom.inf [cdrom_install]. 1 file(s) used by driver:

C:\Windows\system32\DRIVERS\cdrom.sys (6.0.6001.18000)
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Total number of detected HDDs : 1

Hard disk drive # 1
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General info
Interface : SATA - fixed
Manufacturer : Seagate
Model : ST3750330AS
Serial number : QK079LJ
Firmware : SD15
Logical geometry info
Cylinders : 16383
Heads : 16
Sectors per track : 63
Physical geometry info
Cylinders : 91201
Tracks per cylinder : 255
Sectors per track : 63
Bytes per sector : 512
Capacity available in LBA Mode : 1,465,149,168 sectors (715,404 MB)
Buffer size : 0 KB
Logical drives : C:\; D:\; E:\; F:\;
Total free space : 242,559 MB
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Device features
Max block size in R/W operations : 16 sectors
Max block size in R/W operations : 16 sectors
Serial ATA capabilities
SATA Specification Compliance : Yes
SATA Gen-1 signaling speed (1.5Gbps) : supported
SATA Gen-2 signaling speed : not supported
SATA Native Command Queuing : supported
Serial ATA features
Receipt of host-initiated interface power management request : not supported
Device initiating interface power management : not supported
DMA Setup Auto-Activate optimization : not supported
Non-zero buffer offsets in DMA Setup FIS : not supported
Transfer Modes
Supported PIO modes : 0 - 4
Supported Multiword DMA modes : 0 - 2
Supported Ultra DMA modes : 0 - 6
Interface version : ATA/ATA-8
Current transfer mode : SATA 1 (150 MB/s)
Power-on time : 2,793 hours (116 days)?
Min transfer time in Multiword DMA mode : 120 ns
Recommended tr. time in MW DMA mode : 120 ns
Min tr. time in PIO mode without IORDY : 120 ns
Min tr. time in PIO mode with IORDY : 120 ns
Drive features
Temperature sensor detected
Security command set support : supported
Power management support : supported
Write cache support : supported
Read look ahead support : supported
Host protected area support : supported
Host protected area support : supported
Host protected area support : supported
Host protected area support : supported
Host protected area support : supported
Microcode downloading support : supported
Enhanced power management support : not supported
Automatic acoustic management support : not supported
Security features
Security erase time : 148 min
Security mode support : supported
Security mode usage : No
Security locking support : not supported
Security freezing support : supported
Security counter support : not supported
Enchanced security erase mode support : supported
Security level : high
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Device S.M.A.R.T. status
SMART interface : Physical Drive
Monitoring started at : 12/26/2008 11:58 PM
Last checked at : 12/26/2008 11:58 PM
Reliability : 46% (warning)
Performance : 46% (warning)
Temperature : 79 °F
Drive health : WARNING: Your hard disk seems to be reliable, but some of its important characteristics have degraded.
Death time : not defined
# Attribute Value Thresh Raw T.E.C. date Flags
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Raw Read Error Rate 114 6 76,515,780 - LC OC PR ER
3 Spin Up Time 94 0 0 - LC OC
4 Start/Stop Count 100 20 492 - OC EC SP
5 Reallocated Sector Count 100 36 0 - LC OC EC SP
7 Seek Error Rate 62 30 180,464,697,949 - LC OC PR ER
9 Power-On Hours 97 0 2,793 - OC EC SP
10 Spin Retry Count 100 97 7 - LC OC EC
12 Device Power Cycle Count 100 20 482 - OC EC SP
184 (Unknown Attribute)_184 100 99 0 - OC EC SP
187 100 0 0 - OC EC SP
188 (Unknown Attribute)_188 100 0 720 - OC EC SP
189 100 0 0 - OC ER EC SP
190 (Unknown Attribute)_190 74 45 470,679,578 - OC SP
194 Temperature: 26 0 60,129,542,170 - OC SP
195 Hardware ECC Covered 43 0 76,515,780 - OC ER EC
197 Current Pending Sector Count 100 0 0 - OC EC
198 Offline Scan Uncorrectable Count 100 0 0 - EC
199 UltraDMA CRC Error Rate 200 0 0 - OC PR ER EC SP
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
LC-life critical OC-online collection PR-performance related
ER-error rate EC-event count SP-self preserving
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Cool G5

Cool G5

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paroh said:
Make sure that all wires are properly connected. And also make sure that ur bios is full updated and also make sure that ur hard disk is running on udma 5 if it is running on udma 2

then use this method to make it to udma 5


Re-enable DMA using the Registry Editor

Run REGEDIT. Go to the following key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}

It has subkeys like 0000, 0001, 0002, etc. Normally 0001 is the primary IDE channel, 0002 the secondary, but other numbers can occur under certain circumstances. Check the DriverDesc value to see which one it is.

Delete MasterIdDataChecksum or SlaveIdDataChecksum, depending on whether the device in question is attached as master or slave, but it can't actually hurt to delete both. Reboot. The drive DMA capabilities will be redetected.

Open Device Manager again and check whether the device is now actually using DMA mode.

Note As in my case i search and delete the keys name MasterIdDataChecksum and SlaveIdDataChecksum from the registry and after restart my disk is running on UDM 5
Click to expand...


I tried it, but didn't work.

Guys have any suggestion? My 640 GB is lying idle :(
 
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