| From: | Alan Buxey |
| Date: | 31 May 2001 at 11:12:36 |
| Subject: | Re: Max transfer Rates |
hi,
> Max trandfer rate is the speed at which data is
> read/written to the disk. Usualy represented in
no its not. its the data block size that is sent to the HD. most IDE
drives have big problems when you send the largest value to the drive
as the buffering aint too hot. 0x1FE is recommended on older IDE drives,
newer ones can do 0xFFE. SCSI drives can usually get away with 0xFFFFFE
(the max value) as the interface is better.
Max Transfer does NOT affect the speed of the drive. all you are saying
is 'send blocks of 64k' or 'send blocks of 128k' , NOT 'send 128k per
second' etc
> proggies such as HDtools as an octal number, I
> wouldn't recomend messing with it.
that i agree with ;-)
alan
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