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Old May 23rd 06, 09:09 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate

Rick,
I found a bootable floppy with udmaupdt.exe (a Maxtor utility) on it, I must
have used it to restrict the drive because the CMD card was allowing a too
high transfer rate. A re-run has changed the mode to UDMA4 which the Intel
controller on the mobo can modulate to give a burst figure of 30MB/sec which
is what I expected. Sorry for the head scratching.
Regards,
ern.

"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message
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ernie wrote:
I hooked the drives up to my CMD controller card and got a gratifying
increase in read burst speed on the master, a Quantum Fireball lct10, up
to 57.9MB/sec. That is fab. Sadly the Maxtor did not budge from

15.3MB/sec.
Thank you for your advises, I guess the drive may be fubared except that
it passes all other tests and I paid good money for it, I am unwilling
to chuck it out.
Regards,
ern.


Great then, and nice work ernie.
Actually I didn't mean to focus just on promise, although they are the
best, but any decent pci controller card will offer inherent benefits in
this area.

Also I wanted to mention of the three things I suggested to do yesterday
that I unintentionally left out one other very Important thing - and that
of course is the main Processor engine (MB specs too, etc) which are as
important as # 1 & 2 - and is the driving force behind faster data

transfer
rates; and you can see those combinations offer great possibilities as my
previous screenshot earlier showing my own 112 MB/s @ 8 ms readings.

I'm not sure what you did with or what else happened to your Maxtor

2B020H1
drive to cause it to perform at 15 which does seem verrry slow.
I imagine today you also tried hooking it up "singly" all by itself onto
the pci controller card - and it still gives you that reading?

Here's the link to your 2B020H1 that you wanted, not that it will help:

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...1dfe29dd10a191
346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Product%20Support/Desktop%20Storage/Maxto
r%20Other/Fireball%20541DX

Your current lct10 seems even less capable than your older 541DX so you
would expect the 2B020H1 to be even better, but here's your older drive.

http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...1dfe29dd10a191
346068/?channelpath=/en_us/Support/Product%20Support/Desktop%20Storage/Quant
um%C2%AE%20Drives/Fireball%20lct10

But as I mentioned before you can get a 300GB DiamondMaxPlus Ultra ATA133,
UltraMB cache, 7200 rpm internal drive by Maxtor this week
on sale for only $99 and so... ...but the only thing would be is if your
CMD controller is new enough to support it like the Promise card is.

Rick



"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message
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ernie wrote:
Rick,
I have tried the SMART utility but it gives no way to tweak this

drive

Of course it doesn't and I never personally said or suggested you use
any SMART program at all, on the contrary.

Most SMART monitors imo cause unneeded panic since they try to predict
when SMART in the future will predict a failure. SMART conditions are

in
themselves predictions, and there's no need to monitor the predict of
predictions - However, that said - if you even get any SMART prompts
that the HD is in danger of failure, get the data off the drive, and
buy a new one (or use SpinRite on it to see if you can recover any
marked out bad sectors) ..but all this has nothing to do with making
your HD faster in any direct way. You need New hardware.

up, though it is reporting the UDMA as Mode 0, which is consistent
with the HDTach result. Placing the drive as master on the secondary
controller makes no difference. I was not sure what you meant by:

I think that your main HD doing 30MB/sec that you said 'may be'
normal, and I don't give much credence with your second drive hooked
up like that. What are you using it for anyway - just storage.
imho, I don't care to run two ata drives at once 'live' like that.

My only suggestion previously or going forward to you is if you want
better data transfer rates is to get new hardware, and in this order to
get the ATA 133 Promise pci controller card I thought I had mentioned
to you, as well a brand New ATA133 7200 rpm drive I also mentioned (as
well if you can upgrade your RAM to at least 512) ..but as a result of
the first two then you will be on your way near UDMA6 depending, and
your HDTach will read at least triple than what you get now..

Rick





















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Old May 24th 06, 09:02 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.disks.general,microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default How to "turn up" my Maxtor HDD transfer rate

ernie wrote:
Rick,
I found a bootable floppy with udmaupdt.exe (a Maxtor utility) on it, I
must have used it to restrict the drive because the CMD card was
allowing a too high transfer rate. A re-run has changed the mode to
UDMA4 which the Intel controller on the mobo can modulate to give a
burst figure of 30MB/sec which is what I expected. Sorry for the head
scratching.
Regards,
ern.


Glad you figured out what you did wrong, and have it working normal again.

Rick




 




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