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The Win2000 SP2 documentation didn't mention anything about including this
ATA100 fix in it. They mention that the fix is not recommended unless you
really need it and are vague about when it will be included in a service
pack.
I checked performance with SP1, SP2 and SP1 with the hotfix. All identical
results. It is certainly well worth trying for anyone wanting more
performance based upon the success of one person anyways..
I am sure the hotfix predates SP2 because that is the message that the
hotfix install routine came back with when it halted itself and aborted the
installation(SP2 installed).
Jim Bronke
Phoenix, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "E" <eckho@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Jim Bronke" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>; "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: Off topic: HD tweak
> Jim,
>
> That's what I was trying to get at......how this fix interacts with SP1 or
SP2.
>
> There was no date on the hotfix at the MS site. Are you sure it predates
SP2?
>
> Then you wrote:
>
> > I just experimented with this hotfix install. I hadn't visited the MS
2000
> > web site in quite a while. soI first decided to install the SP2 upgrade.
> > That was my first mistake. As it turns out the hotfix predates this
upgrade
> > and won't install afterqwards. So, I uninstalled it. Simple enough with
the
> > Add/Remove programs.
>
> Did you mean uninstalling SP2?
>
> If so, are you sure that was necessary.
>
> The reason I was so anal about the hotfix date was precisely because if
> *hotfix* predated SP2 then, per MS warning, this could already be
incorporated
> into the latest service pack.......IOW, no need to separately install the
> hotfix.
>
> Again, IOW, maybe just installing SP2 will solve the problem.
>
> >Installintg the hotfix then had no effect in my system.
> > My speed is slower to write to the hard drives with this system which
does
> > have the ATA 100 hardware. My oder computer is twice as fast.
Specifically,
> > the write speed to my C drive is 5000kb/sec
>
> So let's see. You uninstalled SP2 and installed the hotfix.......and it
didn't
> work. How about installing SP2 again. Worth a try!
>
> > Any ideas? Let me know. I'm sure I'll get by as is. I do appreciate that
> > benchmark program. It works pretty good.
> >
> >
> > Jim Bronke
> > Phoenix, AZ
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "E" <eckho@xxxxxxxx>
> > To: "omega-list" <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 1:30 PM
> > Subject: Re: Off topic: HD tweak
> >
> >
> > > 1800% is phenomenal, for any endeavor.....hard drive
performance.....and
> > > especially trading stocks and futures! <G> So this got my attention,
for
> > sure!
> > >
> > > But seriously I went to the MS link and what they said raised more
> > questions
> > > than answers:
> > >
> > > 1. There was no date on this hotfix......so we don't know whether
it
> > > predated sp1 and sp2.
> > > What dates that were there:
> > >
> > > English version of the fix was dated 04/27/2000
> > >
> > > This page was last reviewed May 16, 2001.......whatever that
means!
> > >
> > > 2. MS further recommends that, unless the user is *severly
affected*,
> > to
> > > wait until the next service pack. This sounds weird.....they don't
sound
> > very
> > > confident about their fix at all. Of course, the question is, again,
when
> > this
> > > document was created and therefore whether the problem has been
addressed
> > by
> > > sp1 or sp2.
> > >
> > > Bill, perhaps you can enlighten.............did you get sp2 for your
W2K.
> > It
> > > was released in the last couple of weeks.
> > >
> > > But thanks for the info anyway. I'm gonna have to run the test when I
get
> > my
> > > W2K system next week.
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Bill Wynne" <tradewynne@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 15:49
> > > Subject: Off topic: HD tweak
> > >
> > >
> > > > Win2K / ATA 100 HD users:
> > > >
> > > > Found my "fast" new hard drive was running slower than my old "slow"
one
> > > > with this free utility Mpower 1.1:
> > > >
> > > > http://www.mindbeat.com/utils.shtml
> > > >
> > > > Turns out Win2K was missing a patch:
> > > >
> > > > http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/2/33.ASP
> > > >
> > > > This "minor" tweak increased my HD performance 1800%...yeah, 18X.
> > > >
> > > > BW
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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