ATA 66 ?
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How do I know if my Harddrive is work to it's full potential? It is showing UDMA in the ata/ide controllers settings in the Device manager. How can I check this?
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If you want to see if you are using ATA66. Open up your computer case, the hard drive ribbon cable should be of the 80 conductor type and it should be plugged into a white UDMA 66 IDE port.
OP
No Really? I want to know if there was a program that can be used to verify it.
Use EZsmart downloadable from IBM website, it is more than telling you what mode each HDD is running at, it is a S.M.A.R.T. monitoring s/w
OP
Downloading it now...thanks for a real answer.
Michael
Michael
LaddyBoy:
Next time ask your question right before you start handing out smart ass comments. Why didnt you ask for a program that checks the actual speed of your hard drive in the initial post?
Next time ask your question right before you start handing out smart ass comments. Why didnt you ask for a program that checks the actual speed of your hard drive in the initial post?
OP
Thought you were giving me a smart a$$ answer. Obviously the cable is installed correctly if the device manager is reading UDMA. I thought my questions was self explainatory. Sorry! No harm ment and no harm done.
Later
Later
I don't want to make this ugly but if you had a DMA/33 cable plugged into your DMA/66 it would still be UDMA. It would just be DMA/33.
