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Vincent Patterson

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 10:10 am
Post subject: Best VIA drivers for 503+
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What are the best VIA 3/4 in 1 drivers for the 503+? I don't seem to be
getting much throughput from my disk drives...

Thanks,

Pat

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 3:52 am
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It may depend on the OS; 98/ME, 2000, XP? In the majority of cases,
the native MS IDE drivers are best all-around. I have read some cases
requiring the VIA IDE/Miniport driver when using 2000 or XP, but they
seem to be the exception rather than the rule.

First thing, check if your drives are using DMA transfers by looking
at the device settings page for the drive in Device Manager. If the
DMA box is not selected (no check mark), then you're using the much
slower PIO mode. Select DMA for each IDE drive and restart your
computer. Then go back to Device Manager to verify that the DMA box
remained selected after restarting. If it did not, then the driver
isn't detecting your drives as supporting DMA. It may be the drive,
it may be the driver, and we can go from there.

Also enter BIOS SETUP to verify that UDMA mode is enabled for your IDE
drives (under Integrated Peripherals). Otherwise, your IDE drives are
restricted to MultiWord DMA Mode 2 (MWDMA2), which has a maximum
throughput of 16MB/sec vs. 33MB/sec for UDMA Mode 2.

Regards,

Tim

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 > What are the best VIA 3/4 in 1 drivers for the 503+? I don't seem to be
 > getting much throughput from my disk drives...
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > Pat<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->

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Robert Akins2

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:13 am
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I don't think the driver version is going to make much difference. The
503+'s IDE controller is only going to do UDMA2 (DMA33) and you aren't going
to get close to advertised throughput anyway. If you're using newer drives
that are ATA66 or faster, you should put them on a Promise IDE controller
card or similar.
Robert
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 > What are the best VIA 3/4 in 1 drivers for the 503+? I don't seem to be
 > getting much throughput from my disk drives...
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 > Thanks,
 >
 > Pat
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