{"id":470,"date":"2011-04-14T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T05:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/slow-disk-operations-in-bootit-bm\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:59:07","slug":"slow-disk-operations-in-bootit-bm","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/slow-disk-operations-in-bootit-bm\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Disk Operations in BootIt BM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming the drive itself is not slow, this problem is usually caused by the system BIOS. You can try to correct this issue as follows:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Use the <strong>BIOS (direct)<\/strong> bus option. When supported, this mode bypasses the BIOS and may provide faster performance. Note that some systems may perform better using the <strong>BIOS<\/strong> option -- try both to determine which is optimal.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>For IDE drives: <br \/><br \/>\r\n      <ul>\r\n        <li>Some BIOS brands and versions will not automatically detect the PIO mode properly, so you can try setting the PIO mode in the BIOS as appropriate (and nowadays, mode <strong>4<\/strong> would be your choice).<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n        <li>Some BIOS brands and versions&nbsp;support <strong>UDMA<\/strong> directly. If such a setting is&nbsp;available in your BIOS, try enabling it.<br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n        <li>Ensure that you are using&nbsp;an 80-conductor IDE cable, where applicable. <\/li>\r\n      <\/ul>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming the drive itself is not slow, this problem is usually caused by the system BIOS. You can try to correct this issue as follows: Use the BIOS (direct) bus option. When supported, this mode bypasses the BIOS and may provide faster performance. Note that some systems may perform better using the BIOS option &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1826],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-470","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-bootit-bare-metal-problem-solving-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6248,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/470\/revisions\/6248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}