Getting UATA100 on my ABIT-ST6RAID. How?

[FalseChristian]

I just bought an ABIT-ST6RAID and I'm having a helluva time enabling UATA100 for my new UATA100 Fujitsu hard-drive. Right now it's got a read/write speed of 8.1MB/second...it should be in the high 20's.

Anyways, I followed the manual and loaded in the .inf first and then the UATA33/66 drivers and when I rebooted my hard-drive crashed. It just keeps on going and going and...

I had to delete the UATA33/66 drivers in order to get back into Windows.

I even tried Intel's Application Accelerator which Intel says replaces the UATA33/66 drivers.

That didn't work, either, so I had to uninstall that, too.

I can't enable DMA on my new 40GB UATA100 Fujitsu hard-drive and it only has a read/write speed of 8.1MB/second!!!

My other hardrive, a 10.8GB UATA66 hard-drive has DMA enabled and bursts at 53MB/second and has an average read/write of 15.5MB/second.

I had to disable DMA on my CD-ROM as I got .19MB/second with DMA on and 3.89MB/secind with it off.

How do I enable UATA100 on this board?

You'd better answer quickly because my windows open and I'm getting ideas.

Thanks.

 

[AndyHui]

Which OS are you using?

 

[FalseChristian]

I'm running Windows 98 SE, Andy Hui.

 

[AndyHui]

All that you need are the inf drivers....you can get the latest version here.

That's all you really need.

The Intel Application Accelerator Drivers don't really seem to do very well under Win9x (they do a lot better under Win2K), so I recommend not installing them.

 

[FalseChristian]

But why am I not getting UATA100 support for my UATA100 hardrive? It's stuck in UDMA33.

Any suggestions.

 

[AndyHui]

How do you know you are in ATA33 mode?

Windows 98SE itself has nothing to tell you what mode it is operating in, apart from DMA, which has nothing to do with UDMA33, 66, etc.

If you see on the POST summary that it is operating at ATA33, then make sure you have an ATA66 (40 pin, 80 wire) cable.

 

[FalseChristian]

When it posts it says Fujitsu UDMA 100, Fujitsu UDMA 66 and CD-ROM UDMA 33.

I have the UATA100 drive by itself. SHould I pair it with the UATA66 hardrive and let the CD-ROM have it's own IDE channel?

 

[AndyHui]

Shouldn't need to do that.

The i815E chipset supports independent device timings.

Tell me....are the drives connected to the ATA100 controller or the i815E controller?

 

[FalseChristian]

What do you mean? There's 2 IDE slots and 2 RAID slots. My drives are hooked on the IDE slots.