HDD Low transfer rates

[Codasyl]

Hi , I'm experiencing low transfer rates on my A195-EP, I've checked for the first time since i bought it and the rate was 1.3mb/s which is absolutely pathetic for a hard disk, by my opinion.So I've removed the drivers for the atapi devices in the device manager and after the restart I got it working using the DMA mode (was working on PIO before).The problem is that now the rate,even if it's grown, it barely reaches the 3.8mb/s which still remains pathetic for me.
Am I expecting too much or is there really someting going wrong? What do you think??
Where can I find the technical specs for the HDD mounted on this notebook? The manual only gives me the capacity 60gb.

[kee-lo_]

Ja

[seb21__]

:smileygrin:

[hldomster]

seb the VAIO-Meister:smileygrin:

[seb21__]

you mean "der" VAIO-Meister:smileygrin: .

[Codasyl]

If you have an Intel chipset (Everest Home Edition will confirm this) it is worth downloading their Application Accelerator. 
First use the chipset identifier and then download the correct accelerator from here.

My Notebook has the Intel 855PM chipset and there is no Application accelerator for that in the Intel's site...
Seems like a dead end.