Speeddisk32 results and drive temps

**amdkt7** · February 7th, 2002, 09:35 AM

Here is my results using Speeddisk32 on my Maxtor D740X-6L 20 gig 7k rpm drive.

This system is Abit KT7 with 1Gig Athlon, 128meg ram

Also my drive temp is running 50c.

**Richard Cranium** · February 7th, 2002, 11:48 PM

MAN, that is a FAST drive !

Your temps seem too high, if the thing is too hot to touch you better get some cooling on it and fast.

I've had some odd speed readings.
http://www.techimo.com/forum/t12256.html

On a WD 20g 7200 ATA/100 in a 1998 Dell Pentium II 350

the WD 20g 7200 showed 9k/sec and less
the WD 4.3 5400 drive showed 12k ~ ?????
this is much faster than the 7200 ?

A check of Device Mgr showed DMA enabled, the WD utility to enable ATA 33/66/100 FAILED !

I installed a Iwill Side-66 RAID card and ran it as a single drive and got readings from 4.0k-31,000
The blue bar was 2" wide ??

What gives ?

**amdkt7** · February 8th, 2002, 08:19 AM

My drives are quite warm to the touch, but I think it's ok. I need to take that utilty home and test it there also.

Sounds like you are not getting your drives setup right, perhaps your machine has a problem, incorrect or incorrectly installed drivers?

You are using the 80 conductor cable. Did you use the cable select settings on the drive? Some drives will not operate at ATA66+ unless the jumper is on cable select.