LOW DISK PERFORMANCE ON XP

After beta2, I'm using XP as my only os now. So I started to investigate everything. The first thing I noticed is low harddsik performance. First I tried coping big files between my partitions. I checked with taskinfo's fat read n write.

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After beta2, I'm using XP as my only os now. So I started to investigate everything. The first thing I noticed is low harddsik performance. First I tried coping big files between my partitions. I checked with taskinfo's fat read n write. It's avarage is 7000 kb. That's is nearly 11000 kb with winme. Then I bench the hd with winbench99, again scores are %70 of winme, also sisoft's hd test gave the half of the score that gave with winme....
duron650@ 1027 158x6.5
Iwill kk266 686B ATA/100
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Western Digital 40gb 7200rpm
 
-----Let the XP tweak begin-----

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btw I forgot to mention, before xp, it was a nightmare to enable udma on secondary channel, with dma enabled I got lots of troubles coping data from cdrom to hd. I also had lots of problems with sblive. Now it all went away. Both channel's dma came enabled after installion and didn't give any trouble

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The problem is most likely due to/related to the fact you're using a VIA based board.
 
I'm using a CUSL2 and have never had any hard drive performance issues or any DMA enabling issues.

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Yes I'm using a via board and I'm using the AMD that means POWER )
 
Now the deal is somewhat different here, ide performance was great with winme, but secondary channel dma enabling was a problem, now that problem went but it's slower, so it's driver related, I'm sure that will be solved