Slow file copy after installation of second hard disk

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Gerald Ross - 14 Jun 2004 02:28 GMT

I installed a second hard drive, Fdisked it and formatted it. It seems
to work ok. Then I noticed that it took forever to copy a file to either
C or D (new drive) on the network. Then I found it also took forever to
copy a large file from D to C or vice versa. Any Ideas where to look?

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Lil' Dave - 14 Jun 2004 22:59 GMT

Have not tried network copying yet. Noticed similar under these conditions:
Original - WD 80GB primary alone. Added WD 200GB as slave on primary.
Was creating image files (DI 6.0/2002) of partitions on 80GB drive to a WD
45GB drive connected to a Ultra100 controller.
Creating same partition image file copies to 200GB first partition of 99.8GB
(FAT32). Definite slowdown in performance. DMA enabled on 80 and 200GB
drives. However, using XP on 80GB drive, partition image file creation (DI
7.0) to the second partition (NTFS) on the 200GB drive saw no visible
performance loss.

> I installed a second hard drive, Fdisked it and formatted it. It seems
> to work ok. Then I noticed that it took forever to copy a file to either
> C or D (new drive) on the network. Then I found it also took forever to
> copy a large file from D to C or vice versa. Any Ideas where to look?

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