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Mutt Joined: 03 May 2001 Posts: 106

Hey guys, it's been a while. Been really busy at work. Anyway, I have a question I hope someone can help me with. I have the abit BP6 with dual 500's. Yeah I know it's a little outdated...still a decent machine for my game though. Anyway, I have an add-on card maxtor PCI UDMA 100 card and I have 2 hd's. One of them is an IBM 20gig Deskstar the other is a Maxtor 40 gig. I want to make sure that I'm getting the UDMA enabled for my drives for fast access. Under the Hardware properties The add-on card is shown as a SCSI device, HOW DO I CHECK TO MAKE SURE I'M GETTING MY FULL THROUGHPUT? Question

Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

SiSoft's Sandra is probably the best way to check

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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 6:54 am Post subject:

What OS are you using? The only reason I ask is that apparently it's a real biznitch to get UDMA 66 or better to work with win2k. I have a Maxtor 40GB as well, and I still have no clue as to wether it's 33 orr 66..tried a couple of registry fixes that I got off of www.tweak3d.net that are supposed to enable/disable under win2k.

http://www.tweak3d.net/tweak/win2kmem/

That link is a good reference for tweaking your memory and hard drive under win2k. Of course, if you don't use win2k then this entire message is useless to you Tongue Smile

(although you can find some other cool tweaking/customizing stuff at that link).

SDGR406

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:05 am Post subject:

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What OS are you using?

Win2K, judging by the thread subject... [ Sticking out Tongue

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My £0.02,
Demon
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Mutt Joined: 03 May 2001 Posts: 106

LOL, that's funny demon. Big Smile

Thanks, I thought that Sisoft Sandra didnt' work with win2k? Is this true or not?

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:10 am Post subject:

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Win2K, judging by the thread subject... [ Sticking out Tongue

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My £0.02,
Demon
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bwahaha...I'm a dumbass

don't worry, if I had've realized that on my own I would have started a "hi, I'm a retard" thread as well [ Sticking out Tongue

]

SDGR406

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 7:17 am Post subject:

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Thanks, I thought that Sisoft Sandra didnt' work with win2k? Is this true or not?

I don't know. I've never used it. Sorry. [ Sad

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My £0.02,
Demon
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Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 8:27 am Post subject:

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LOL, that's funny demon.
Thanks, I thought that Sisoft Sandra didnt' work with win2k? Is this true or not?

--== If it ain't broke, fix it until it is. ==--

Sandra does in fact work on 2k. I have it loaded on both of my 2k machines right now. :-D

Here's some linkage if you need it...

http://www.sisoftware.demon.co.uk/

- Spot

"AssPunching is not allowed!"
monkey butt

Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2001 8:32 am Post subject:

Also... to answer your original question, I snagged this from the Sandra Q&A Page on disks/cd-roms.

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Q: How do I know what ATA mode my EIDE disk is in?
A: Firstly, update to Sandra 6.40 or later. The buffered/burst read speed should tell you that information. Thus:

Over 66MB/s -> UDMA ATA100
Over 33MB/s -> UDMA ATA66
Over 16MB/s -> UDMA ATA33
Over 6MB/s -> UDMA

- Spot

"AssPunching is not allowed!"
monkey butt

Big Dog Joined: 20 Oct 2000 Posts: 3689 Location: USA

i'm too lazy to look it up so feel free to correct me if someone finds that i'm wrong

but i think SP2 was supposed to fix the win2k udma66/100 problems

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Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2001 5:02 am Post subject:

really? sweet...I haven't installed it yet

SDGR406

Butt Sniffer Joined: 21 May 2001 Posts: 1411 Location: USA

Yes, SP2 does fix it. I had a noticable improvement.

perrito_blanco

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