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I saw more consistant results with the 100Mb test.
Jim Bronke
Phoenix, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry" <drwar@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Jim Bronke'" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: RE: HD access times
> 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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