doh ... that's what I thought ... I must have screwed up somewhere (I knew I should have read those warning messages).

Xiven
 
I see your point, and yes it makes total sense.
 
So, leaving the Win2k/ATA100 incompatibility out now, why is this Maxtor drive still slower than my UDMA 66 main drive?
 
The ATA100 drive (Drive d has an average seek time of 15ms, which is faster than the system disk (c , but its transfer rate is appalling, somewhere around half that of the system disk.
 
When I had the same system running under Win XP Beta 2 (Build 2465), it ran quite nicely, but after clean installing Win2k, its all gone a bit pearshaped.
 
Homer

Sorry, I don't have any hard facts that prove that ATA100 does work, but from what I've read on the net, this is one of the issues SP2 was suppose to fix.
 
Prior to installing SP2, the HD controller was reporting my HD as running in PIO mode (which the hotfix took care of). Now, they are running in Ultra DMA mode so I assume that the more responsiveness of my system is due to this.
 
I never bother with the VIA crap either. I have many boards that run ok with ATA100 even without SP2, but this is my first board with a VIA southbridge. I will never touch anything that uses VIA ever again.

"I will never touch anything that uses VIA ever again."
 
That's gonna be tough if you stick to AMD. VIA & AMD are close. Very close.

Evil Homer,
 
Have you visited the Maxtor weboite and used the wee utility that they have for changing the noise level of the drive? I believe when the drive ships it does so in quite mode which effects the movement of the heads across the platters. Thus running quieter. Here is the link.
 
http://www.maxtor.com/products/diamondmax/techsupport/technicalprocedures/21007.html
 
ht_addict
 

Maxtor hard drives are shipped with UDMA 66 and 100 deactivated and write verify activated and with medium noise levels. More Maxtor utilities are located here with links to readme files:
 
http://www.maxtor.com/SoftwareDownload/PerformanceOptimization.html
 
UDMA 66 or 100 are related to your motherboard bios and controllers which may also need to be updated.

Linux Zealots = sons of OS/2 Zealots
 
Boy, I remember the day when I worked part-time at Egghead Software (when they had REAL stores). On that night when Win 95 was released at Midnight, this fat slob in a torn & smelly T-shirt pushed his way into the store. He imediately went to the OS/2 pile and grabbed a box and held it into the air. He bagan to shout and preach like a hellfire and brimstone Baptist on a soapbox. The only people who noticed him, were the ones who he was in their way to get a box of W95

I wonder if that guy is still preching about OS/2.
True, Windows is not 100% perfect, but is any other OS? Whatever works best for you should be what you use, if possible. I think many Linux lovers realize that they have a long way to go before they really are a threat to Windows like any other OS. Linux needs to get organized too, as there are a zillion distrobutions out. Im not saying thats a bad thing, but youve still got RedHat and Debian types of distros. While I dont like the current crop of the corporate evil (Bill Gates and Microsoft), they are organized with the OS's and with XP they are having one code for both the work and home OS's. Linux is not gonna go anywhere until things get sorted out. I dont care how great the latest kernel is, Linux is like a chicken with its head cut off.
Im not cracking on Linux, but I would like to point out some things that I think are issues that need to be addressed for the advancement of this OS.

To be honest though, . . . . . IF, and that is a VERY BIG IF Unix/Linux were to get some sort of WIN emulator with DX in it to handle the games - I'd dump MS in an instant!!!!!!!!! And this is an UNBIASED opinion, for I don't have any Unix/Linux software, nor have I ever used it.

Like Liquo, I use another version of Windows 2000: The Dutch version.
Liquo, for the German version there is already a SP 2 now on the Microsoft site.
But for me I wonder if there ever will be a SP 2: I use the Dutch version of W2000
Somebody out there who can help me out, or at least one who can tell me if there will be a Dutch sp 2?
 
Han.

Oh yes, every version of Win2k will eventually get SP2.
This always happens with MS Service Releases and the like.
It was the same for SP1.
The US/UK version is released first, usually closely followed by the German one.
The other languages usually appear over the next couple of weeks.

Thank you, Bladerunner, for the speedy response!
I just keep waiting patiently