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Technology Stocks : Western Digital (WDC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (8124)	12/9/1997 2:56:00 AM
From: Think4Yourself	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11057

I am running a 200 MHZ pentium(no MMX) with the intel 430TX chipset and L2 is 512K pipeline burst SRAM. I use 64MB of 60 nS EDO memory. PCI bus is standard at 33 MHz, as is the host bus at 66 MHz. I have applied the 430TX patch to the bridge chips from the Intel web site. I am running a pre-UDMA drive and a CDROM on the secondary IDE controller, but there is no slave drive on the primary IDE. The driver is dual fifo as directed by intel. The ANTEC MB5689 motherboard detects the drive as UDMA and Windows has the device flagged as DMA access. Discovery PRO from the Nuts&Bolts toolset reports the drive as transferring 6.5 MB/sec, but it reports my pre-UDMA WDC drive at 6.7 MB/sec. Since the WDC drive spins at 5200 and the IBM at 5400, I don't have much faith in this tool. The DeskPro is noticeably faster than the Maxtor UDMA drive it replaced (much quieter too). It is also a bit faster than the WDC drive. It "feels" about 20% faster than the Maxtor on average. The current performance is good and I'm keeping this drive, but it would be nice to get it's full capabilities. Any ideas appreciated. Ken