Cant get my drive to correct Udma setting

jenko

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• Mar 27, 2005

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My new sata drive supports udma 6 but i cannot get it to change from udma 5?
Have treid setting it from auto to udma 6 in the bios but still no good.
My maxtor ide ata133 is fine though.

 

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Vio1

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• Mar 27, 2005

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is it important to change it?

 

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jenko

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• Mar 27, 2005

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Vio1 said:

is it important to change it?

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Yes it is, its like buying a ata-133 harddrive and have it run at ata-100,
Im not sure of the speed diff though, but i can tell between my seagate ata100 and my maxtor ata133.

 

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• Mar 27, 2005

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SATA is not the same as running in UDMA mode. It's different. UDMA6 = ATA133 = 133MB/sec. SATA = 150MB/sec.

You shouldn't worry anyways. No single drive can even hit 100MB/sec, let alone 133 or 150.