Configuring the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250GB disk

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Dave (from the UK)

I've read a few reviews on the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250 GB SATA drive.

Looking at some customer reviews on the Dabs web site:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.asp...3,366860000,4294963789&InMerch=1&v=3#infoarea

it says the drive is shipped as SATA I
Sata I mode and will give you failures in some Sata II systems (ie
Shuttle XPC's). You can set this in Sata II mode by downloading the
ftool.exe from the
following URL: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
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Does anyone know if this is has to be done once, or is a program loaded when the
machine boots?

I do *NOT* want to use it under Windoze at all, but 64-bit Solaris. So whilst I
don't mind setting a drive up once via Windoze, I can't have a drive that needs
it done eash time the machine boots.

The Tyan motherboard supports SATA II, so obviously I want to get the best
performance I can.

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Dave K MCSE.

MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.
 
Dave (from the UK) said:
I've read a few reviews on the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250 GB SATA drive.

Looking at some customer reviews on the Dabs web site:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.asp...3,366860000,4294963789&InMerch=1&v=3#infoarea

it says the drive is shipped as SATA I


Does anyone know if this is has to be done once, or is a program loaded
when the machine boots?

I do *NOT* want to use it under Windoze at all, but 64-bit Solaris. So
whilst I don't mind setting a drive up once via Windoze, I can't have a
drive that needs it done eash time the machine boots.

The Tyan motherboard supports SATA II, so obviously I want to get the best
performance I can.

--
Dave K MCSE.

MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.
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You just set it once. Mine ran for a while with the default settings on my
SATA II mobo, with no problems. I used the Hitachi util to set it to SATA
II, but frankly can detect no speed difference in it's performance. Nice,
inexpensive drive though.
 
You just set it once. Mine ran for a while with the default settings on my
SATA II mobo, with no problems. I used the Hitachi util to set it to SATA
II, but frankly can detect no speed difference in it's performance. Nice,
inexpensive drive though.
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Thank you. I might well get one of these for mass storage of infrequently used
data, although I might still l buy a SCSI drive for better performance on data
accesses frequently. Not sure yet !!

--
Dave K MCSE.

MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.
 
Dave (from the UK) said:
I've read a few reviews on the Hitachi Deskstar T7K250 250 GB SATA drive.

Looking at some customer reviews on the Dabs web site:

http://www.dabs.com/ProductView.asp...3,366860000,4294963789&InMerch=1&v=3#infoarea

it says the drive is shipped as SATA I


Does anyone know if this is has to be done once, or is a program loaded
when the machine boots?

I do *NOT* want to use it under Windoze at all, but 64-bit Solaris. So
whilst I don't mind setting a drive up once via Windoze, I can't have a
drive that needs it done eash time the machine boots.

The Tyan motherboard supports SATA II, so obviously I want to get the best
performance I can.

--
Dave K MCSE.

MCSE = Minefield Consultant and Solitaire Expert.

Please note my email address changes periodically to avoid spam.
It is always of the form: month-year@domain. Hitting reply will work
for a couple of months only. Later set it manually.
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yikes the deathstar........
 
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