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To: steve harris who wrote (156421)	1/21/2002 1:43:40 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

<font color=red>Bug in Intels Chipsets?? [ By VooDoo >> Jan 15th, 2002 @ 9:35 pm ] After reading an article a few weeks ago that claimed VIA had a bug in its IDE controllers which caused slow Burst speeds it was interesting to read this.... Question: My ATA100+ drive on Intel Chipset gets only ~80MB/s burst rate and not higher! Answer: As per errata documents from Intel's website developer.intel.com, the 850, 860 chipsets have a PCI issue (Err 5. Sustained PCI Bandwidth) that limits the PCI transfer rates to 90MB/s rather than 133MB/s. Thus the ICH or external PCI disk controller will be constrained to rates ~80MB/s. Its from sissoft FAQ! theddrzone.com