Brave New World: Operating IDE Hard Drives on SCSI Host Adapters

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Test System
Processor Intel Pentium 4, 2.0 GHz256 kB L2-Cache (Willamette)
Motherboard Intel D845EBT, 845E Chipsatz
RAM 256 MB DDR/PC2100, CL2, Infineon
Controller IDE: i845E UltraDMA/100-Controller (ICH4)SCSI: Adaptec AHA-39160Ultra160-SCSI
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce2 MX 400
Network Card 3COM 905TX PCI 100 MBit
OS Windows XP Pro 5.10.2600, SP1
Benchmarks and Tests
High-End- Applications ZD WinBench 99 - Highend Disk Winmark 1.2
Performance HD Tach 2.61, PC Mark 2002 (HD Test)
I/O-Performance Intel I/O-Meter
Drivers and Settings
Graphics Driver NVIDIA reference driver 29.42
IDE-Driver Intel Application Accelerator 2.2.2
DirectX-Version 8.1
Resolution 1024x768, 16 bit, 85 Hz refresh
Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.