ultra 66 in win2k

[de2k 0]

does anyone know how to enable ultra 66 in win2k, i have tried to edit the registry but no use,

[chuck17 0]

Try this, worked for me

 

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0000]

"EnableUDMA66"=dword:00000001

[de2k 0]

I've tried this, but when I looked into system informaton\software environment\driver, it still shows ultra 66 is stopped.

[rbarbier 0]

Mine says stopped also! I never looked at this before. But when I run a benchmark program (SiSoft Sandra 2000) my harddrive is over 18000 which shows it being faster then a standard UDMA/66 drive. Mine are 7200 UDMA/66 running on HPT-366 (Abit BE-6).

[Uncut_Diamond 0]

I have a BP6 which has 4 IDEs (2x ATA33, 2x ATA66) but when I installed a secondary 4GB ATA66 drive I had layin around onto the Primary ATA66 controller, the drive worked great for like a month and then got all messed up.

 

I overclocked my system from 500 to 600's and started getting two weird problems.

 

Problem 1 was that the primary hard drive (WDC ATA33 8GB) would work fine and then all of a sudden my system would lock up (have to reboot from switch). I finally figured out that by setting the primary ATA33 controller to run the hard drive at PIO 4 instead of at UDMA it fixed it (anyone know why that might be????).

Problem 2 is that the ATA66 drive that had been working great all of a sudden stopped and was completely corrupted. Lost all data on that drive (nothin important thankfully!!). So I moved the ATA66 drive to the Secondary ATA33 controller and reformatted it and it is working fine now in UDMA mode. Weird huh?

 

Can't figure out if it's the ATA66 that is not working properly with win2k (even when the data was corrupted in win2k on the ATA66 drive, I could read the disk from DOS PRopmt fine, just not from My Computer) or if the UDMA is screwed.

 

Anyway, ne help would be much appreciated!!

[andrmgic21 0]

I just got a new Maxtor DiamondMax 7200 rpm drive and it seems to be working great :-)

it's faster than my old 5400 rpm drive, which is all i really care about though, that and the extra space. It's 41 gigs )

I had some problems getting it started, when i first put it in, i used a win98 boot disk to format it and put a partition on it, but it only made a 6.8 gb partition, so I had to use win2k setup to delete that partition and reformat to ntfs. THEN, i got an error that said "Error Loading Operating System". I got this message 2 times when i tried to install win2k on it. I disconnected my old harddrive, which i had made a slave to the primary and reformatted and installed win2k, voila! It worked. Guess it didnt want 2 drives with different file systems in the same puter.