🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi WIlly,

I have a simular problem. Read this message I sent about a week ago to
ASUS, but still no reply.

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I just finished a long conversation with the tech support of Maxtor. A
few weeks ago I installed a Seagate MedialistPRO 9.1 GB 7200 rpm
UDMA/33 drive in my ASUS TX97-E system. I have tried both the 1.08
BIOS and latest beta BIOS and still keep having a performance problem.
I installed the drive under Windows 98 with BIOS Harddrive AUTO, mode
AUTO, UDMA Auto. I use the UDMA cable to connect the drive. It is
partitioned in 4 FAT 32 partitions.

Performance with DMA checked ON in Win 98 System settings gives a
performance of about 5.6 MB/s. DMA OFF makes it go up (!!!??) to 6.3.
The same problem is also happening with my new Maxtor 10 GB 7200 rpm
drive, same settings, same performance issue.

The Maxtor tech rep told me that this particular harddisk is the
industrie standard best at this moment and should at least give a
performance of 12 MB/s or more and performance with DMA ON should be
better than with DMA OFF. He told me, as there are no other causes in
my system, it *must* be a driver (win 98) and/or BIOS problem, because
with DMA on the performance decreases in stead of increasing. So it
looks like an incompatibility problem when DMA is turned on. He
suggested me to ask ASUS for a fixed driver or BIOS fix.

HD Tach results with DMA ON(!)

Read speed maximum 14,7 mb/s,  minimum 10,8 MB/s and average 13,2
MB/s. CPU 20,4 %
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Curious to see if anybody can solve this?

Regards,
Reinier de Groot.

NB. if possible, please reply to my e-mail address.