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Midgard <midigard@aol.com> wrote in article
<65l4hv$1hv@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
> For months I've been listening to my brother boost about how lightning
> fast his standard EIDE hard drives are.  Claims it all depends the
> motherboard's controller on how fast a hard drive can get, up to the
> maximum rated speed for that drive of course.  Right now I'm using a
> 486 VIP green Mainboard (M919) w/ an AMD P75 cpu & have *never* gotten
> more than 1,870 kb/sec using my Seagate ST-3851A HDD.  But you're
> always hearing about how these drives are capable of 16 MB/sec data
> transfer rates.  In a few weeks, I'll be upgrading to  a Socket 7
> mainboard with either an Intel 166MHZ MMX or AMD K6 166MHz.  But I'd
> like to keep my present drive & want to know once and for all if it's
> actually possible to get the maximum rated speed for these "older"
> EIDE drives?

Yes.

>  Is it, in fact, the controller on the motherboard that
> determines data transfer rates with hard disks?  

If the drive is faster than the controller/driver then changing the
controller/driver will speed things up usually.  And visa versa.  You
should be able to realize the full speed of the drive,  which is about
4MB/sec. sustained transfer rate, on the new system.

Regards,

Ron Reaugh