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I ran this utility. I do not trust its results. I have seen large
descrepencies in the numbers
after running it multiple times - differences in excess of several hundred
percent.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Bronke [mailto:jvbronke@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 12:56 AM
> To: omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: HD access times
>
>
> Recently a list member turned others on to a Disk Benchmark
> utility that
> measured read and write access times to your hard
> drives(freeware). He was
> excited because he had seen great improvments to his ATA33
> bus system when
> he installed the patch that MS has on their website that
> fixed a Win2000
> problem with the ATA100 bus running much slower. Since I am
> running Win2000
> I checked it out. Much to my surprise my HD read and
> especially write speeds
> were very slow. 5000 Kbytes/sec. I checked my Win 98
> DMA66(max) system and
> found it to be twice that. I did an install of Win2000SP2, no change.
> Uninstalled it and just installed the hotfix-no change.
> Installed the latest
> BIOS 11/17/00 for the DBL100-no change(that's my motherboard). Double
> checked that the ATA100 fix is indeed in SP2 and it is.
> Checked the ATA
> drivers in the Device Mgr for updates and there was none that
> appeared to
> offer anything new. It appears that MS still has a problem
> with the Win2000
> OS with regard to this R/W access speed. maybe someone else
> can study this
> on their machines. I have seen posts where even Win95 systems
> had better
> access times. Interesting.
>
>
> Jim Bronke
> Phoenix, AZ
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