Re: [COMP] Fw:

> Hello.I recently ran  Wintune which rated my Maxtor HDD at 50% of the 
> reference mark; it transfers data at only 1.50MBytes p/s. DMA enabled or 
> disabled makes no difference.Can anybody suggest anything to speed it up.

Let's make sure the drive is at least running with 32-bit access.  Check
in BIOS to make sure that 32bit access is enabled (if that's given as an
option), and then make sure in the device manager under performance that
you don't have anything flagged as running in "compatibility mode."  

John


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