HDD Speed Issue

[Stephen]

Hi

I have a Maxtor 34098h4 Hard Drive that is running fine but only in UDMA 4
mode. From what I can tell, the highest mode supported by the drive is UDMA
5.

The contoller installed is Intel 82801AA Ultra ATA controller, running Intel
Applicatoin Accelerator ver 2.3. From Intel's Documentation the controller
will support UDMA 5 mode as well. But when I start application accelerator
the highest it says the drive will support is UDMA 4.

Any insight woud be helpful.

 

[Shep©]

Hi

I have a Maxtor 34098h4 Hard Drive that is running fine but only in UDMA 4
mode. From what I can tell, the highest mode supported by the drive is UDMA
5.

The contoller installed is Intel 82801AA Ultra ATA controller, running Intel
Applicatoin Accelerator ver 2.3. From Intel's Documentation the controller
will support UDMA 5 mode as well. But when I start application accelerator
the highest it says the drive will support is UDMA 4.

Any insight woud be helpful.

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[Stephen]

Win 2K, All the latest service packs installed.

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[Shep©]

Win 2K, All the latest service packs installed.

Try here,
http://snakefoot.fateback.com/tweak/winnt/tweak.html

Down the page a little.


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[kony]

Hi

I have a Maxtor 34098h4 Hard Drive that is running fine but only in UDMA 4
mode. From what I can tell, the highest mode supported by the drive is UDMA
5.

The contoller installed is Intel 82801AA Ultra ATA controller, running Intel
Applicatoin Accelerator ver 2.3. From Intel's Documentation the controller
will support UDMA 5 mode as well. But when I start application accelerator
the highest it says the drive will support is UDMA 4.

Any insight woud be helpful.

Maxtor's website shows it as a 5400 RPM ATA100 drive with
20GB/platter. It's barely fast enough to get any
performance boost from UDMA3, let alone UDMA4. The bottom
line is that you have better things to do than chase this
ghost, fixing it will not gain anything.... if the
motherboard even supports ATA100, it's an old chipset.

If you want a faster drive, replace that one. Modern drives
(even the cheaper, lower capacity budget models) are nearly
twice as fast except for seek speed, but being 7200 & higher
RPM opposed to that drive's 5400 RPM, even seek speed will
be higher.

 

[Stephen]

Bios only supports UDMA-4, so I won't sweat it.

Maxtor's website shows it as a 5400 RPM ATA100 drive with
20GB/platter. It's barely fast enough to get any
performance boost from UDMA3, let alone UDMA4. The bottom
line is that you have better things to do than chase this
ghost, fixing it will not gain anything.... if the
motherboard even supports ATA100, it's an old chipset.

If you want a faster drive, replace that one. Modern drives
(even the cheaper, lower capacity budget models) are nearly
twice as fast except for seek speed, but being 7200 & higher
RPM opposed to that drive's 5400 RPM, even seek speed will
be higher.