Problem Involving SCSI Hard Drive Setup And Sandra 2003

**Xxx Frost xxX** · 09-04-2003, 01:38 AM

Hi, I'm currently running a Seagate Cheetah, Ultra320, 15000RPM, with an 8mb buffer. I figured I should have one of the best hard drive setups out there except according to Sandra 2003, my SCSI hard drive is performing much poorer than a USB 2.0 Zip Drive. Whats wrong with this? I also had this problem with my old raid setup also.

**SkyDog** · 09-04-2003, 08:39 AM

What kind of SCSI controller are you using? Do you have any other SCSI devices on the same SCSI chain? Are you using a SCSI cable capable of U320 speeds? Does the SCSI BIOS negotiate U320 with the drive, or is it falling back to a lower speed?

...and I don't use a lot of benchmark utilities, but doesn't Sandra have a reputation for oddball disk readings?

**Xxx Frost xxX** · 09-04-2003, 01:09 PM

Originally posted by SkyDog
What kind of SCSI controller are you using? Do you have any other SCSI devices on the same SCSI chain? Are you using a SCSI cable capable of U320 speeds? Does the SCSI BIOS negotiate U320 with the drive, or is it falling back to a lower speed?

...and I don't use a lot of benchmark utilities, but doesn't Sandra have a reputation for oddball disk readings?

I'm not sure about the "oddball" thingy but it sure seems like it. I'm not running any other devices with my SCSI hard drive. I'm currently running the Adaptec 29320 Ultra 320 card. I also made sure that I had Ultra320 cables and an Ultra320 terminator. I don't know what to do. I even set all the configurations in the BIOS correctly too. The speeds and everything.

**Colossus** · 09-04-2003, 05:40 PM

How full is the drive? If it is brand new with nothing on it... Then yes that score is rather bad... I would see those kinds of scores with a drive with less then 10% full and in a serious need of a defrag...

Is this your boot drive? Try using a program called HD_Tach... IT does work a little better then Sandra...

**Xxx Frost xxX** · 09-04-2003, 07:35 PM

Originally posted by Colossus
How full is the drive? If it is brand new with nothing on it... Then yes that score is rather bad... I would see those kinds of scores with a drive with less then 10% full and in a serious need of a defrag...

Is this your boot drive? Try using a program called HD_Tach... IT does work a little better then Sandra...

Where can I get this HD_Tach?

**Colossus** · 09-04-2003, 08:04 PM

http://www.tcdlabs.com/hdtach.htm

You can get it from there

**Xxx Frost xxX** · 09-05-2003, 02:09 AM

Originally posted by Colossus
http://www.tcdlabs.com/hdtach.htm

You can get it from there

Nevermind, I didn't know it was $50. =(

**Lord Vetinari** · 09-05-2003, 02:41 AM

You can D/L the version without write support for free!
Thats what everyone uses.

**Xxx Frost xxX** · 09-05-2003, 11:16 AM

Originally posted by Lord Vetinari
You can D/L the version without write support for free!
Thats what everyone uses.

Where can I DL the version WITHOUT write support? Can't seem to find it.

**Lord Vetinari** · 09-05-2003, 03:36 PM

http://www.tcdlabs.com/htach261.exe

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