Re: How to change from UDMA5 to UDMA6

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The UDMA management tool was on the WD Diagnotics disk, I see that there are a couple of versions
there, I haven't tried the newer versions so I am not positive its on there, but that was where it
is located in the older versions of their disks. AS for transfer rates, there are many things that
can influence them, amount of memory on board, running items in the background, indexing service and
virus scanners influence the speed at which stuff mves around.
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Dave Vair
CNE, CNA, MCP, A+, N+

"Mondo" <hmk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you guys for your help.

I know for regular IDE drives the Western Digital's came with a
floppy that you could set the UDMA
with. You may want to check to see if they are actually at 6.

Dave my WD does not come with a disk and could not find any tool to
change the UDMA on WD site, only data Lifgaurd tools is there, its
only for copying and partitioning the drive and giving infos about
it, it says the drive supports UDMA6 and current is UDMA5.

If they are then maybe the motherboard needs to be checked to see
if it indeed supports the 6 speed. The specs of the board
from the manufacturer should tell drive speed support.

Nothing is told about that in the manual nor on Gigabyte's site,
thats why I was asking if there is anykind of a testing tool that
will give me such info.

You will not notice the difference between
the two if you are able to switch to 6.

I get it that there is no difference in the speed from UDMA5 to
UDMA6? If so how come I noticed a big difference between lower UDMA
modes and UDMA5? Please explain more because if so then no need to
bother trying to switch.

Also on sandra file system benchmark I'm getting very low results
(50+Mb/s) compared to other similiar systems (100+Mb/s), what could
be the cause of this?

Thank you.



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