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    SATA Help

    i have just recently received a 74GB, 10k RPM, SATA hardrive for my birthday. but it seems that is not living up to some of the claims some have said about it. supposedly it should boot up in about a bar or two on windows XP. but it takes about 10 for me. its pretty dissapointing. so could anyone help, maybe i have the wrong settings or something. i also have an IDE drive as the slave, which i think might be a problem. it also seems that the IDE/PCI controller and the SATA controller are on the same IRQ (17), i don't know if that would b a problem or not. here's my set up if it would help:
    AMD 64 3200+
    512mb DDR400 Vdata RAM
    Foxconn 755/760 motherboard
    74 GB SATA harddrive
    250 IDE drive

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    You say the IDE drive is a slave but SATA/IDE controllers are separate devices so it shouldnt cause any problems. I would hazard that something else is taking up a large amount of boot time.

    Have you tried running Sisoft sandra's basic Hard disk test and seeing the numbers compare to the supposed speed of a raptor?

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    Have you run a boot defrag? this may help.

    I have two raptors in raid 0 and it takes 2-3 xp loading bars to boot up, approx round 15 secs from off to desktop.

    Also check what services you have running and also bios setting, turn off memcheck etc.
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    thanks pre, i see your point with the seperate devices. could u tell me anywhere to get the sisoft sandra's basic hard disk test? because i have never heard of before.

    Bro John that seems like a good suggestion i might have a hard disk check set within the bios.

    thanks

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    You also might want to run Bootvis to optimise your boot.

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