PCMCIA CF Card Reader

Andres · 17th January 2008, 10:25 PM

I've had a generic PCMCIA CF card reader for at least two years, and in the last few months it seems to have drastically slowed in speed, as well as causing the computer to become and absolute dog during the transfer.

Tongiht it took about 10 minutes to transfer a fairly full 1gb basic Sandisk card. And during that time the CPU (notebook in sig) was at 100% most of the time.

Has anyone experinced this issue before? It used to work really well, but something is causing a holdup somewhere.

I know 32bit are better than 16bit PCMCIA cards, and you can get faster CF cards etc, but I'm confident that this setup used to be a lot faster and something, somewhere has stuffed up. I've tried a couple of cards, and they all show the same symptoms.

FranchiseJuan · 17th January 2008, 10:39 PM

Maybe the driver got corrupted and you need to reinstall it?

Heist · 18th January 2008, 12:05 AM

How about the drive you are copying to? Is it running low on disk space? Have you done a defrag lately? If there isn't much space left the disk will be forced to seek all over the place to copy data onto it, which can be very slow if it can't find lots of continuous free space.

Andres · 18th January 2008, 8:39 AM

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Originally Posted by FranchiseJuan

Maybe the driver got corrupted and you need to reinstall it?

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Originally Posted by Heist

How about the drive you are copying to? Is it running low on disk space? Have you done a defrag lately? If there isn't much space left the disk will be forced to seek all over the place to copy data onto it, which can be very slow if it can't find lots of continuous free space.

Thanks for the ideas fellas, will try when I get home. Esp the defrag - I've been copying lots of stuff on and off the laptop recently.

17th January 2008, 10:25 PM	#1
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17th January 2008, 10:39 PM	#2
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18th January 2008, 12:05 AM	#3
Heist Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Sydney Posts: 1,196	How about the drive you are copying to? Is it running low on disk space? Have you done a defrag lately? If there isn't much space left the disk will be forced to seek all over the place to copy data onto it, which can be very slow if it can't find lots of continuous free space.