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OT - need help with ATA-66 disk drive.

C

ColinP

Golden Member
Hi folks,

I have:-

Gigabyte GA-5AA mobo. (Latest Bios) (Sayds it supports UDMA-33 and ATA-66 in the manual)
Fujitsu 40Gb IDE disk (MPG3409 I think)(Brand new - must support ATA-66 at least).

I just went and bought an ATA-66 cable (80 wires instead of 40).

I test my disk performance first, swapped the old 40 pin cable for the new 80 pin cable, and re-tested the disk performance (with Virtual Dub).

It had dropped slightly. I have an old(ish) 24 speed cdrom and this IDE controller (secondary) too.

Any ideas how I check that ATA-66 is active/being used ?
I'm using this PC for video capture (and SETI/UD of course !!).

cheers,

Col
 
Hi,

thanks for the reply.

I got an average read speed of around 22Mb/second. It wouldn't test write speed (need to buy it).

I can't see anything in BIOS to configure and in Device Manager it is set to UDMA if available (Win2000).

cheers,

Col
 
Hello,

If you should have an UATA-66 IDE controller on you're motherboard,
you could see it in Windows 2000 by SCSI-controllers.. If you check you're
hardware manager, do you see anything that Windows doesn't recognice?
I'm having an Highpoint UATA-66 controller intergrated on my motherboard,
only Win2K doesn't have the approperiate drivers for it..
When you boot you're PC, is there any text shown from you're controller?
Usually it should have it's own bios..
Good luck!
 
Make sure the Blue connector on the ribbon is connected to the motherboard. If not then it will use the ribbon as ata33 instead of ata66.

Force
 


<< Hi folks,

I have:-

Gigabyte GA-5AA mobo. (Latest Bios) (Sayds it supports UDMA-33 and ATA-66 in the manual)
Fujitsu 40Gb IDE disk (MPG3409 I think)(Brand new - must support ATA-66 at least).

I just went and bought an ATA-66 cable (80 wires instead of 40).

I test my disk performance first, swapped the old 40 pin cable for the new 80 pin cable, and re-tested the disk performance (with Virtual Dub).

It had dropped slightly. I have an old(ish) 24 speed cdrom and this IDE controller (secondary) too.

Any ideas how I check that ATA-66 is active/being used ?
I'm using this PC for video capture (and SETI/UD of course !!).

cheers,

Col >>

 
Guys,

I'm starting to think that the ATA-66 cable I was sold may not be any good. It definatley has 80 wires but it doesn't have blue, black and grey connectors as far as I remember... I'll check tonight when I get home.

cheers,

Col.
 


<< Yes...

Is this a bad thing ????
Will this stop the HD working at ATA-66 ?

cheers,

Col >>



No but move the cdrom to the secondary channel anyway. Will improve performance.
 
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