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I wish this patch had worked for me. From the responses I've seen it appears
that there is a driver that needs to be updated somewhere.
Jim Bronke
Phoenix, AZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "William R Wood" <wrwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "Jim Bronke" <jvbronke@xxxxxxxx>; <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 6:09 PM
Subject: RE: HD access times
> Just looked at MS Windows Update page and read contents of Win2k SP2
update.
> The ATA100 (Mode5) patch posted by Bill Wynne is included in Win2k SP2;
the
> patch was available but not included in SP1 presumably so more testing
could
> be done. I just downloaded and installed SP2 on a new P4 computer that
had
> Win2k SP1 installed. Hard drive performance is substantially improved.
I
> did not test it with any utility before or after installing SP2 but I know
> my computer and it is definitely much faster reading stuff off the hard
> drive. Thank you Bill Wynne and Jim Bronke for this tip.
>
> Bill Wood
> Also Phoenix, AZ
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Bronke [mailto:jvbronke@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 9:56 PM
> 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.
>
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> Jim Bronke
> Phoenix, AZ
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