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[Esteban]

Hi,


I just bought a Western Digital harddisk (WD800JB) and i can't get the
DMA 4 at least that is the maximum that my motherboard can support even

if my HD can do UDMA 5. I would like to know if it is possible to get
driver for HD because i went to the WD website and there's no driver
for HD. When i use Everest it say that the driver is drive.inf and is
dated from 2001-07-01 and published by Microsoft. Is the only thing i
can update the IDE controller or is there other thing i can do?


Thanks!

 

[Bob I]

DMA support provided by driver 4-1 incase of VIA chipset, Intel
Accelerator for Intel chipset.

 

[Esteban]

What you mean? Sorry my english is not good!

 

[Yves Leclerc]

Drivers are from the motherboard maker or the motherboard chipset maker.

For Intel chipset based motherboards: you need the Intel Chipset
drivers and the Intel Application Accelerator program.
Via : you need the
VIA 4 in 1 Hyperion drivers
nVidia : you need the
nVidia drivers

and use an 80 wire/40 pin Ultra DMA IDE ribbon cable.

 

[Esteban]

Well i went to the PCChips website and i can't figure out what model to
download because it's not clear.
I have :
62-0510-009999-00101111-071595-000000$M758LMRE_RELEASE 05/10/2001S

which is a PCChips M758LMRE

you can go to this site and select Socket 370 (Intel P3) then tried to
figure out which model to choose so you can download the right bios.
P I just can't find it out! Thanks in advance!

About the Chipset, it's a SiS 630.

Bios: American Megatrends Inc. (AMI)

So can you help me more with all this info?

Thanks a lot!

 

[peterk]

check your cable....is it a 40 wire or is it an 80 wire IDE cable connecting
the Drive to the MOBO.
I believe you will need an 80 wire to achieve that speed.
Check your BIOS settings to see if the setting is at DMA4(UDMA66)
peterk