Win2k & ATA-100

[Guest]

I have read on all these posts something about ATA-100 hard drives and Win2k not working properly. Is that just pertaining to incompatibility with the Promise controller card, or also with motherboards that support ATA (I have the Gigabyte 7DX). While it might be that I couldn't tell the difference between ATA-66/ATA-100, I'd like to make sure I'm getting the most out of my computer. Is there some way I can check? (P.S. My computer originally came w/WinME, and I formatted and installed Win2k instead)


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Microsoft Windows 2000

 

[Guest]

ATA-66 is the most that W2K supports. A fix will be included in SP2.

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q260/2/33.ASP

 

[doczenith1]

Win2k indeed does not support ata100...yet. My WD400bb, when set to ata100 would run in pio mode (very slow) in win2k. After changing the drive to ata66, using wd's utility, win2k ran the drive in udma mode. So, if you can switch your drive to ata66 until win2k sp2 comes out. BTW I am using a Soyo mb with the 686b chipset which supports ata100.