Large Drives and ATA-100....

[FreakyOCR]

I have heard that after awhile thigs start going wonky with big drives and ata-100. If there is a fix (aka a patch) could you refresh my memory? Thanks.

FreakyOCR

 

[TuOni]

I haven't ever heard that but what I do is run Norton sys works 2001 disk doctor every week along with windows fix and a speed disk every 3 weeks. That should keep you on the ball and your hardrive shouldn't screw up if you maintain it welll.. Later

 

[Zak]

Yes. Data corruption that affects fast ATA66 and ATA100 drives with large buffers (2MB) on fast systems running Win98SE and WinME. The way I understood is that these systems shut down too fast for the buffer's content to be written to the disk before power goes off which may lead to corruptions. MS released a patch but to vendors only. Someone posted that Micron had the patch on their web site. Check Micron's site.

Zak

 

[Wuming]

i think its this you looking for

Windows IDE Hard Drive Cache Package



tell me if i am correct.
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q273/0/17.asp
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com