hard drive not at ata100


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my maxtor 7200rpm hdd isnt reading at an ata of 100, and i know it has the possibility to, i bought it last year so its relatively new, and i can tell a performance decrease when i copy files and such, could it possibly be my ata cables or something that wont go at ata 100, rite now its performing at ata 66 and its sort of makin me angry, ive looked around in the bios but i couldnt find anything to modify the settings, and my friend with the same setup has his reading at ata100 which it detected automatically, any help would be apriciated, here's my setup

amd 1.2 cpu

abit kg7 raid (bios version 9m)

256mb micron ddr ram

maxtor 40gb 7200rpm

ibm 20gb 5400rpm

could it be since my ibm drive is sort of old and its slowing it down? even though its not on the same ide cable?

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two things to check

are both drives on the same channel

if one drive is slower it may slow the other down

so if one is ata 33 and other is ata100

they will work at ata33

(skip this i just saw u said different channels)

make sure u are useing a ata100 cable (ie a 80 pin one)

and make sure dma is check in device manager

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Originally posted by devobitch

two things to check

are both drives on the same channel

if one drive is slower it may slow the other down

so if one is ata 33 and other is ata100

they will work at ata33

(skip this i just saw u said different channels)

make sure u are useing a ata100 cable (ie a 80 pin one)

and make sure dma is check in device manager

grrrr

NO THEY WONT!! I have 2 ata-100 drives now but before i had a PIO 4 drive on here and it didn't slow down my maxtor 40GB ata-100 7200RPM drive one bit. The PIO 4 drive was slave the the ATA-100 drive so don't say stuff you know nothing about. HEHE>.. :)

You drive at ATA-66 wont run much faster at ata-100 so don't think they will :) Check your cables tho and check you drivers. I use the default drivers for everything for my MOBO (if it's available) and i get full speeds outta everything.

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click the plus beside IDE/ATAPI Controllers then the right click the PRIMARY IDE Channel and choose properties then go to the ADVANCED TAB and look. It should say UDMA 4 or 5 (ata-66 or ata-100) so look and post back.

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You can cut and paste this into notepad and save it as ATA100.REG ... then double click it to import it into the registry.

--- Begin cut here ---

REGEDIT4

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlClass{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}]

"EnableUDMA100"=dword:00000001

--- end cut here---

*Note - ALL text between (and including) the brackets [] should be on one line (you might have to turn off wordwrap) and all text between (and including) the quotes "" should be on the 3rd line.

I do agree with SHoTTa35 ... the drive won't seem that much faster (you probably won't even notice a difference) between ATA66 and ATA100

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Originally posted by SHoTTa35

grrrr

NO THEY WONT!! I have 2 ata-100 drives now but before i had a PIO 4 drive on here and it didn't slow down my maxtor 40GB ata-100 7200RPM drive one bit. The PIO 4 drive was slave the the ATA-100 drive so don't say stuff you know nothing about. HEHE>.. :)

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i suppose ur a computer tech with 20 years expirence

and know for sure that no mother boards do this?

i think not

and i am a tech with 20 years expierence and have seen this happen

not allways but it does happen

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the reg thing didnt work, its still at mode 4 or whatever, i guess it is a ata66 drive, i'm just nitpicky about that sort of stuff, thanks for the quick help though :)

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Originally posted by devobitch

i suppose ur a computer tech with 20 years expirence

and know for sure that no mother boards do this?

i think not

and i am a tech with 20 years expierence and have seen this happen

not allways but it does happen

They had Ultra 100 drives 20 years ago?

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hehe, if you're a tech and that happens then you don't know marbles from your balls! HEHE... KIDDIN...breathe... but it shouldn't happen so if it happens to you then you didn't do something right. Anyways, Are you using Windows XP or 2K? If you're using 2k and using the latest SP then it should work just fine... contact me via AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) so i can get more direct questions outta you. Same goes for yahoo too... !!

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