MAXTOR CAN SUCK MY BIG ONE!!!

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Be aware that if you purchase a Maxtor Diamond Max UDMA66 hard drive, and your motherboard does not support UDMA66, it will not allow you to enable DMA in Windows 95, 98, and NT.

A call to their customer support produced the comment, "It is a Windows problem. Out hard drives will run on DMA". Fat chance!!!

Other hard drive manufactures have provided BIOS level toggles to make their UDMA and ATA 66 hard drives work as a UDMA or ATA 33 so that DMA can be enabled in Windows OS. But Maxtor says they are making no driver that will do this.

I suspect that they will after some time. With all drives going to UDMA and ATA 66, and people still using Windows 95, 98, and NT, and older motherboards that only support UDMA and ATA 33, eventually the pressure will be on for Maxtor to step up and write a driver to address this issue.

Ed
 
That's a bitch. One alternative would be to get a ATA/66 controller card. Abit, ASUS and Promise make a few models. $30 or so.

Emeric
 
Okay. That would probably explain why I don't have a DMA box to check off like Slackmaster2K was refering to in the "audio glitches during recording" topic posted during the past few days. I forgot about that. I also have a Diamond Max because I didn't want to have to get another MB or a controller. I took the cheap road because the Diamond Max was rated up with some of the top DMA units. Anyway, that's my excuse for having one. Works okay for what I'm doing so far.
 
What really sucks is that the drive works just fine as a DMA 33 drive in Windows 2000, but, Wave Lab 3.0 does not work with any soundcards with integrated mixers in the 2000 OS. So, I cannot use 2000 to do this at this point untill either a new Lynx One driver comes out for 2000 (the card works with all the other app's I have tried it with in 2000, just that I prefer using Wave Lab), or a new version of Wave Lab, or a hot fix for it comes out.

What is funny is that NT 4 is supposed to handle these DMA issues if SP3 or later is installed. But, at this point, I cannot enable DMA on the channel with the Maxtor drive on it and still see the drive to use it. Weird.

Ed
 
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