Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus v1.0 and ATA 133

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In case anyone is interested, I found the answer myself - Microsoft TechNet
KB Q327805

-Tom


"Tom Rogers" <jeditom@NO-SPAMtwcny.rr.com> wrote in message
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> I have just purchased a Soyo KT600 Dragon Plus v1.0 motherboard. I have
two
> Maxtor 120GB IDE ATA-133 HDDs connected as master/Slave on IDE Channel #1.
I
> have installed the VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 v4.51v drivers and I'm running Win
XP
> Pro SP-1a.
>
> Running CheckIt! 7 benchmark for drives and SiSoft Sandra 2004 SP-1
> benchmark for drives, I only seem to be getting around 70 MB/sec transfer
> rates. The drives and the IDE interface on the motherboard are UDMA
ATA-133.
>
> So how come I am not seeing 133 MB/sec transfer speeds in these benchmark
> utils?
>
> When I ran the same tests on my Soyo K7V Dragon Plus KT266A motherboard,
> which had an UDMA ATA-100 IDE controller built in, I saw 99.8 MB/sec
> transfer rates with the VIA Hyperion 4 in 1 v4.51v drivers installed under
> WinXP Pro SP-1a.
>
> Thanks for any advice you can give.
>
>
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