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To: wily who wrote (63730)	1/5/2001 12:16:08 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

wily, <I'd really like to see this 25MB/s. ...(head-to-media) max transfer rates of 50MB/s.> It is doable under Win98SE, but only if your BIOS configures IDE and disk to run in UDMA mode (which was never the case in the nearest past). Then booting into DOS-7 (aka "win98-dos") will retain the UDMA functionality without special drivers. The might be an option to use Promise or Hotpoint PCI IDE controllers under DOS. BTW, the "usual" head-to-media transfer rate for latest IDE Quantums is around 290Mbits/s, which, accounting for formatting overhead (about 2 bits on every byte, on average), could translate into 290/10 = 29MBytes/s. I don't know what the current record of data density is, maybe IBM glass platters are doing better, but not the 50MB/s yet as far as I can tell. Regards, - Ali