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Your Welcome Bill.
Thanks goes to Bill Wynne for getting this thread started. It alerted me to
the weakness that had existed in Win2000. I've just received a response to a
query to my motherboard manufacture(IWill) and find out that it has a BX
chipset which only supports ATA33. Seems that you have to read between the
lines when you buy these boards. They talk about their components like they
are the latest and greatest but then you find out they are not. I'm going to
try to add an add on IDE driver board that will get the job done.
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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