T43 with IDE SSD; Master/Slave/CS jumper on or off?

[TRS-80]

Also, I would suggest, after going through all of this process, and after you have all drivers installed, base programs, configuration, etc. and the system is fresh, clean, and running well, to take a drive image using Clonezilla or Acronis, etc. It will save you a lot of time in the event of future re-installation, whether due to new HDD / SSD or malware, etc.

[burns334]

AKJ, Crystal Disk Mark gave better results, what do think of these, what do you think?

Seq........85.4 Mb/s 29.6 Mb/s
4K...........8.7.......... 1.0
4K-64......10.5......... 1.2
Acc time...0.5......... 4.1

[ajkula66]

Apart from sequential read, outright horrible.

There is something VERY wrong with that SSD, your setup technique or both.

I'm not home to post results from my SATA-modded T43p, but yours are so behind in every category that it's not even funny.

[burns334]

AKJ, your making mr feel bad, sometimes the truth hurts. It was so much trouble to get it up and running I really don't want to start over. First thought is that I never got a secure erase performed on the drive after the first bad cloning. Maybe a secure erase and then build the system from disks will fix up but secure erasing this drive has presented a problem. I got no response from Kingspec about erasing the drive. HDDerase was shown on their webpage but no luck with that.

burns

[Johan]

As George just said, the benchmarks reported for your Kingspec PATA SSD points to something being (quite a bit...) wrong. You'll find examples of T43/p SSD benchmarks in e.g. following posts: here, here (and the next posts in the same thread) and here (all these using quality-SSD's, not Kingspec!).

Briefly reviewing e.g. threads Help: T43 doesn't recognize Kingspec PATA 64GB SSD and T43 SSD FAT32 or NTFS Windows XP (incl. the benchmarks pointed to in this post) seems to indicate that many people have been struggling with first of all getting the Kingston PATA SSD's to work at all (like what I also understand that you've been through), and secondly that the performance fianlly obtained w/Kingspec SSD's is, well, less than expected/hoped.

I have never personally tried any Kingspec SSD's (and I also never, ever expect, that I will - I've have read by far too much negative about them!), so I don't know if the above reports are perhaps describing "problems of the past", or if Kingspec is still lagging (more or less) behind the competitors...?

@ burns334; you've already found (and posted in) the thread in the X4x forum Kingspec SSD users? (Pic Warning), so perhaps there are more useful info "over there"?

PS: Suggestion; try check (using HD Tune) which UDMA-mode is "reported" and is being "used" for your SSD; see where to find this information on this image.

Johan

Johan

[ajkula66]

AKJ, your making mr feel bad, sometimes the truth hurts.

It was not my intention to make you feel bad.

Having said that, I honestly don't even know where to start with any type of recommendation for a possible solution in this case.

Maybe formatting the drive with a Vista or W7 install disk and starting fresh. Maybe.

Personally, I'd ditch both XP and that particular SSD and move on to W7 with a different drive altogether.

If you want to stick with XP for whatever reason, just go back to spinning drive and call it a day. I know I would.

Good luck.