80GB: 08/14/97-VXPro+-USB-Ultr-2A5LDH09C-00

[NickS]

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Denniss wrote:

You may have to use a little program from your hdd manufacturer to tell your hdd using UDMA33 as highest transfer rate(UDMA33 is your board capable of) .

Did you do this? After doing this you should be able to use DMA OK.

Where can I get this programm. My hard drive was made by Seagate (ST380020A)

[NickS]

gb wrote:

Where can I find this programm???

Depends who your drive manufacturer is.
Maxtor Drive ATA mode setting utility
Western Digital Data LifeGuard Ultra ATA manager
Fujitsu UDMA setting tool for MPG series drives.
Saegate "Ultra-ATA toggle" utility
Windows executable to create the IBM Feature Tool bootable diskette. A Linux version is available.

Yeah, its the Seagate Ulity (my HDD: Seagate ST380020A)
I am going to download it today, maybe that I am going to test today too. I will report the
status of my drive then.

But how can I test it, are there some good ulities for the testing of the transfering rate
for a hard disk, because my computer has 200Mhz. That very slow, thus I am going to
tune it.

But does someone know what is with my LTP port and why I have often the Windows message
Mistake in GDI.exe or USER.exe or some dlls. (-> read some posting of me before in this topic)

And have I to set it in the BIOS or not. And should I put a tick in the hdd config, where
DMA stands (Windows system edit)

[NickS]

When you have the DMA speed sorted out, set the mode to "Auto" in the CMOS/BIOS. If I remember correctly, Windows should detect it and automatically tick the box.

For parallel port questions, there are good sites such as Parallel Port Central at Lake View Research. Hewlett Packard helped develop the ECP specification, but I am told that there is an issue with the parallel driver in Windows 95 which fixes it in "4-bit mode"; I do not know when it was fixed. Read the specialist sites.

Your other questions I can't really answer for sure. Intermittent errors like this could be RAM problems, maybe the RAM settings are too fast.

I have not got some time to test the software, but I'm gonna to test it today.
Because they have shut down the server last week for the weekend such a f***!
I hope it will work.

Thank you for the other informations. I hope, that the port will work.

Can I set my HDD to UDMA 100???

I don't know,because my Motherboard has DMA33.

I have updated my BIOS, know it supports my drive.

But can I set the transfer rate to UDMA100, when my motherboard only supports DMA33.

[Denniss]

You need to set your drive to UDMA33 otherwise DMA will not work / DMA tickbox will not stay ticked .