Low hardrive sequential read speed

[semajjames]

why is my pentium 3... 448 mhz....... 256 ram ... only allowing a sequential read speed of 20bm/s i tryed different drives,different leads all with 80 wires..... nothing changes ...... please explain

cheers

 

[Rik]

It all depends if the mobo supports ata speeds, by the sound if it it doesn't, if that's the case then using ata (80wire) data cables wont make a blind bit of difference.

 

[semajjames]

cheers .....................

 

[Rik]

If you know how to get a look at the udma mode in your bios for the hard drives then this should help - http://www.phildev.net/ata-modes.html