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What UDMA Setting do I use for ATA133

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Fejinwales
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:33 pm

Hi, I have bought new DiamondMax 740X133 ATA133 drives for my PC. The other day Kevin helped me by telling me I had to go into the Highpoint controller BIOS menu (watch for when it said to hit ctrl-h) and to make sure my hard drives were running at the correct DMA mode. UDMA 5 meant ATA 100. I did what he asked and they were detected automatically but in case these new ATA 133 drives do not get detected automatically, what will I have to set the DMA mode to for these new ATA133 hard drives?

I know I am a nuisance but I want to make sure it is done right....sorry.
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:43 pm

ATA 133 is technically UDMA 6, but since the drives are incapable of asturating even ATA 100, you can use UDMA 5 and should notice no difference in performance.
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 6:48 pm

As far as I know, no current (read: on the motherboard) IDE chipset supports ATA-133 anyway. I suppose it's possible that highpoint will release a bios upgrade, but things like speed jumps usually require new silicon.
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 7:18 pm

Thank you for your advice, I have just cancelled the order for the drives until I will see adifference in performance. As that was the goal of the purchase there seems to be no point in it now.
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 7:28 pm

The drives probably would have been a good bit faster than the drives you currently have, not because of ATA133, but increased platter density. Unless the platter counts for these drives are some particular odd number in the correct direction to make me wholesale incorrect. Woooooo rambling.
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Tue Mar 26, 2002 12:56 pm

the new kr7a motherboards do have ata133 support natively. You would have to set it to udma6 to get the 133 throughput though. You will need to install the new via ide drivers for the os to recognize it though
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Tue Apr 16, 2002 5:51 pm

the new gigabyte boards p4 and amd, come with promise ata133 controllers integrated into them. and they rock. i run a ata100 seagate cheetah 30gb, and it is noticably faster on this controller. posting with no experience, a lot of these replies will no doubt be. :o
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Tue Apr 16, 2002 9:58 pm

My Soyo P4S Dragon Ultra recognizes ATA 133 drives just fine - mode 6 is reported. Nice to have the support, even though real world performance isn't there.
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