Attn: Gary Terhune - problem fixed

Although the drive works without being seen in DM, it still bothered me
and constantly "niggled" away in the back of my brain.

This evening, I remembered that the VIA Miniport driver was originally
intended to supplement and expand the native Windows IDE controller
even though it hasn't been needed for some time. I did not previously
have it on my system as it wasn't needed with the Maxtor 80Gb drive.

But ... with nothing to lose and seriously considering returning these
drives, I dug out a copy and installed it.

Voila!!! All drives are now seen in DM, no flags on the controllers and
the transfer rate is back to where it should be again.

So, Gary .. thanks for your effort and time ...

Take care, do good and have fun ...

--
PoGo
www.pogo123.com
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"Teaching a pig to sing wastes your time and annoys the pig".

Cool! Thanks for reporting back. Now, if you have any time eg, I hear
there's a couple of other similar threads been going on for some time and
getting nowhere. Perhaps they have the same problem? I'm not familiar with
the technology you mention. Would be better if you got directly involved.
Seriously. I suspect that you'd be doing at least one person a *big* favor.
Search on "Maxtor"

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User

"pogo" wrote in message
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Although the drive works without being seen in DM, it still bothered me
and constantly "niggled" away in the back of my brain.

This evening, I remembered that the VIA Miniport driver was originally
intended to supplement and expand the native Windows IDE controller
even though it hasn't been needed for some time. I did not previously
have it on my system as it wasn't needed with the Maxtor 80Gb drive.

But ... with nothing to lose and seriously considering returning these
drives, I dug out a copy and installed it.

Voila!!! All drives are now seen in DM, no flags on the controllers and
the transfer rate is back to where it should be again.

So, Gary .. thanks for your effort and time ...

Take care, do good and have fun ...

--
PoGo
www.pogo123.com
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"Teaching a pig to sing wastes your time and annoys the pig".

"pogo" wrote in message
...
Although the drive works without being seen in DM, it still bothered me
and constantly "niggled" away in the back of my brain.

This evening, I remembered that the VIA Miniport driver was originally
intended to supplement and expand the native Windows IDE controller
even though it hasn't been needed for some time. I did not previously
have it on my system as it wasn't needed with the Maxtor 80Gb drive.

But ... with nothing to lose and seriously considering returning these
drives, I dug out a copy and installed it.

Voila!!! All drives are now seen in DM, no flags on the controllers and
the transfer rate is back to where it should be again.

So, Gary .. thanks for your effort and time ...

Take care, do good and have fun ...

Yeah, I figure it was my suggestion to get the latest MB drivers from Asus that
triggered that thought. :-)
Happy to hear it's doing well.

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in
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Cool! Thanks for reporting back. Now, if you have any time eg, I
hear there's a couple of other similar threads been going on for
some time and getting nowhere. Perhaps they have the same problem?
I'm not familiar with the technology you mention. Would be better
if you got directly involved. Seriously. I suspect that you'd be
doing at least one person a *big* favor. Search on "Maxtor"
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If, Gary, you were referring to the: "Adding a Maxtor 160gig in Windows
98SE?" post, I've read it and don't think I have anything to contribute
at this stage.

Several people have responded and one more cook, might just screw up a
good dinner.

I do disagree with one item I saw (but it's as much personal taste as
anything) and that was over Maxtor's install utility. The author
doesn't like it, but I thnk it's positively bulletproof .. naturally,
for Maxtor Drives, and far faster than Fdisk followed by Format.

Other than that, the original poster is getting ALL the help he needs
... if he can sort through it all.

If you think me wrong in not contrinuting further, don't hesitate to
tell me (a needless statement if there ever was one) ...

Take good care ...

--
PoGo
www.pogo123.com
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"Teaching a pig to sing wastes your time and annoys the pig".

Glad to see it is fixed.


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Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"pogo" wrote in message
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| Although the drive works without being seen in DM, it still bothered
me
| and constantly "niggled" away in the back of my brain.
|
| This evening, I remembered that the VIA Miniport driver was originally
| intended to supplement and expand the native Windows IDE controller
| even though it hasn't been needed for some time. I did not previously
| have it on my system as it wasn't needed with the Maxtor 80Gb drive.
|
| But ... with nothing to lose and seriously considering returning these
| drives, I dug out a copy and installed it.
|
| Voila!!! All drives are now seen in DM, no flags on the controllers
and
| the transfer rate is back to where it should be again.
|
| So, Gary .. thanks for your effort and time ...
|
| Take care, do good and have fun ...
|
| --
| PoGo
| www.pogo123.com
| - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| "Teaching a pig to sing wastes your time and annoys the pig".
|