Windows 2000 and ATA-100 support..Emergency Question

[Wizzah]

Hello All,

A friend of mine has just installed Windows 2000 Pro with a 1 GHZ Thunderbird on a Asus A7V motherboard. He has read in other places that Windows 2000 does NOT support Ata-100 drives at all... (A7V having an onboard ATA-100 controller)... Is this true? Is there any way around this? If so please point me in the right direction.

All your help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[aUt0eXebat]

I dont see why W2k would not support it. You wont see much of a diff between ata100 and 66, unless hes FTPing or file sharing... I dont think that w2k would *not* support it... but I am 100% sure.

 

[reality bites]

Win2K DOES support it if your controller has win2k drivers.

I am using the highpoint ide raid on a soyo 6ba+100 board (ata 100 controller with ata 100 drives) and win2k and it works great. I did have to download the controller driver for win2k to get it to run right.

BTW - RIGHT NOW ata 100 is not ANY faster than ata 66, so don't press yourself to get to ata100 only to find out it ain't all that. One day it will be faster, now it just sells hard drives.