yes here it is and it work for me http://publish.hometown.aol.com/intelsuxlately/myhomepage/q260233_w2k_sp2_x86_en.exe.zip

Certainly, Microsoft has (not!) released a patch.
Read:
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/...amp;SPR=WIN2000
You can download the patch from different sources on the internet but I would wait for the "Service Pack 2" for Windows 2000 sceduled for release in February which will correct the issue.

Alternatively, call MS, and ask for the file quoting the knowledgebase number.
 
They will send you an email with a download location for the file, and the password so you can unzip it.
 
If you do it this way you know you're getting the official file and not something that may have a nasty surprise in it.

Hmmm....it is very tempting to download that file from Devil_DK's link but I also agree with Bursar. I don't like "surprises." I don't know if Devil is trustyworthy...look at his name, got the word "Devil." heheh..

Here's the readme from that above file. Wonder why the copyright is 1995-1997?????
 
 
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Support for ATA 100 ( mode 5 ) in Windows 2000.
Hot Fix for Microsoft Knowledge Base article number q260233
 
Knowledge Base Article
======================
To view the contents of the knowledge base article for this update, visit
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q260/2/33.asp directly, or
visit http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/ and query the Knowledge base
for the product and the Q number of this update.
 
Installation Instructions
=========================
1. If this hotfix was delivered with hfx.exe then it can be installed by running
hfx.exe from the appropriate platform directory.
 
Additional Information
======================
The disk and software contained on it, including any
accompanying documentation ("the Software"), are provided to
you at no additional charge. Microsoft Corporation owns all
right, title and interest to the Software. TO THE MAXIMUM
EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, MICROSOFT AND ITS SUPPLIERS
DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING,
BUT NOT LIMITED TO, IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTBILITY AND
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The Software is provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS. Use,
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restrictions set forth in subparagraph ©(1)(ii) of the
Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at DFARS
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Computer Software--Restricted Rights at 48 CFR 52.227-19, as
applicable. Manufacturer is Microsoft Corporation, One
Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399. Any transfer of this
Software must be accompanied by this statement and may only be
transferred if first approved by Microsoft.
 
© 1995-1997 Microsoft Corporation, All Rights Reserved.

i have now uset the file for to days and my system still ok
 
"i will never on purpes put up a link to a file that has virus even if my name is DEVIL"

haha that url cracked me up "/intelsuxlately/" HAHAHAA

Devil, I was just kidding. =)

BTW, I installed that UATA-100 patch 2 days and so far it work fine for me too.

Yes nice 1

im gonna try that file, if I dont come back.. its all devil's fault.
 
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You don't need the file. Simply install the drivers for your IDE controllers and you'll be set.

I have an Intel D815EEA motherboard that has onboard ATA100. It came with a CD with ver 6.0 of Intel's ATA100 drivers, and they install ok. BUT! I had gotten a message from someone on the newsgroups that said these are not any better than the regular ATA66 drivers. He suggested, and sent me the WSP2 hotfix for this. I tried it and it installed. But without a benchmark, I can not really say if there is any difference, so I went back to the Intel drivers.
 
ALSO of note - the WSP2 Hotfix for the ATA100 has a slight bug in it. Supposedly, even though you ARE running at DMA ATA100, it will show up at PIO mode.
 
But, seeing as I also have an Adaptec 2940US and a 10K RPM WD SCSI2 disk, I think I might use GHOST to reimage it with my WIN2K partition and see if that will make things any snappier.

I am not sure that anyone would really be able to tell the difference between ATA 100 and 66 as the drives rarely if ever put out more than 66 megs in a second. So the only performance increase that you are likely to see is in the burst transfers from the physical cache on the hard disk itself. I haven't seen anymore than 2megs of ram on an ide disk so at a 100 meg per second transfer rate the 2 megs of disk cache would be transferred in .02 seconds instead of .03 seconds on ata 66. As you can see until we start to see IDE drives with a spindle speed of like 10 or 15 k this ATA 100 is really only a negligible performance difference at best and I think that it is really just another marketing ploy.

Does it really matter

From PIO to DMA? YES
From DMA/33 to DMA/100? Not as much as PIO to DMA but every little bit counts.