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I can live with 33MB/s though obviously it's not ideal. With the 40gig drive attached I can get 57MB/s out of both IDE drives.So we settle on UDMA/33 (which probably explains your slow disk performance. Even if you were happy with 33MB/s the disk should end up in udma5 mode which should make the bottleneck the disk not the bus (as it in currently).
So probably failing to negotiate ATA/100 is the root issue, and would explain the slow boot.
With the 40gig drive attached I get. [ 1.205628] ata7.00: configured for UDMA/100 [ 1.227560] ata7.01: configured for UDMA/100 so your diagnosis certainly seems plausible.
Does the BIOS let you force the IDE to start at ATA/100 rather than ATA/133?Not that I can find. It lets me choose PIO modes (I tried 0 and 4) and DMA modes (I tried UDMA 5, 4 and 2) per disk. They seemed like the closest but didn't make any difference.
ftp://europe.asrock.com/manual/K10N78.pdf this is the motherboard manual. There are screen dumps of all the bios options starting from page 51. the IDE configuration screens start on page 61. To summarise: I can set the following:
-type (auto, cd/dvd, armd) -LBA/Large mode -Block (Multi-sector transfer) -PIO mode (from 0 to 4 or auto)-DMA mode (there are loads of options, but bottom of the list are UDMA 1 to 5, or perhaps 0 to 5 I forget.)
-S.M.A.R.T -32-bit data transfer.I've fiddled with the type, block, PIO, DMA, SMART and 32-bit data transfer. I haven't tried disabling LBA since I actually want to use the whole disk.
In the PCIPnP section there is a PCI IDE busmaster option which I have tried disabling and reenabling.
They all have the blue, black and grey plugs so I can only presume that they are 80 conductor cables. Even with a 40-conductor cable, I wouldn't expect the data rate to be so slow as to cause this amount of delay.Definitely an 80 pin cable?
In a situation like this, it's difficult to know what is good. I tried 5 different cables and with the same result. I'd be surprised if all 5 were bad in the same way.Makes me thing check cable, jumpers on drives, and seating of cables..... Switch out the IDE cable for a known good 80 pin cable.
Any other ideas? All I can think of at the moment is to write to ASRock and see if they have a magic way to force ata100.
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