Need Help: Maxtor Won't Post @ 37.5 Mhz PCI Bus

[rpr]

I have had my 600E rock solid at 900 on my P3V4X for the last few months. I just replaced a WD 13.6 GB 5400 rpm UDMA66 with a Maxtor 20 GB 7200 rpm ATA100 Drive. Now I can't post at any speed that uses a 37.5 MHZ PCI bus. I can post at 840 Mhz (140x6: which uses a 35 Mhz PCI bus), but I can't even post at 672 Mhz (112x6: which uses a 37.5 Mhz PCI bus).

Do I have a bum Maxtor drive (it does ride on the PCI bus, doesn't it)? Is there anything I can do? Are Maxtor drives known to have this problem? I want my 900Mhz back!

 

[rpr]

Anybody?

 

[Chuffmaster2k]

Unfortunately Maxtors do have a rep for being very sensitive to pci bus speeds. Good Luck.

 

[aLLeYcaT]

sorry cant help u.
but mine (6.4g maxtor) work perfectly at 41mhz pci.
my banshee work well too.

 

[Eug]

Maxtors suck at high PCI bus speeds. I used to think it was just the 5400 rpm ones, but there are reports of the 7200 ones too.

 

[RSI]

"sorry cant help u.
but mine (6.4g maxtor) work perfectly at 41mhz pci.
my banshee work well too." - aLLeYcaT

I've had 420MB Seagate Medalist (3800rpm), 2.1GB Seagate Medalist (4500rpm) and 20.5GB Quantum LM (7200rpm) which all worked flawlessly with the 37.5MHz PCI frequency setting (used with 75MHz front-side bus speed). I also have a Voodoo Banshee based PCI video card (Guillemot Maxi Gamer Phoenix), which has worked wonderfully throughout my overclocking adventures (tested out every possible option on my VA-503+).

"Maxtors suck at high PCI bus speeds. I used to think it was just the 5400 rpm ones, but there are reports of the 7200 ones too." - Eug

This is said to be true, that Maxtors "suck at high PCI bus speeds", but some people have been lucky and have been able to hit high PCI frequencies while keeping a perfectly stable and functional Maxtor hard drive (aLLeYcaT an example).

rpr: If you are unable to hit 37.5MHz PCI with your Maxtor, I think you're just unlucky and caught a bad drive. I'm sorry to say this, but I don't believe there's anything you can do to get the speed you had back.

-RSI

 

[rpr]

Thanks for all the feedback. I'm just reaching here, but I don't suippose the PCI latency settings in the BIOS would help?

Anyway, with the low prices on hard drives these days, I may pickup another 20 GB soon and just use this Maxtor as a backup. Any recommendations on drives that are a little more reliable at high PCI bus speeds. IBM?

 

[rpr]

By the way, this Maxtor drive is OEM. Are there any reports of OEM Maxtors being less reliable than retail Maxtors at high PCI bus speeds?

 

[lotust]

I think my maxtor is my weak link too. I cant get my athy 800 past 918. and I have all the OC'ing goodies too. GFD 133 ram