And it does access Dvd drives, >128GiB and so on. I measured only 93MB/s with a disk capable of 134MB/s, and it doesn't use Ahci even with W2k, which loses a lot of speed, but is useless with W98-Me. It has drivers for W98SE and WinMe (and W2k+), Bios for Raid and faster ones for non-Raid. Two St3500418as in Raid-0 aligned (!) "improved" to 22s (plus 4s added Bios time).Īs this one has no driver for W95-98-Me, I have a SiI3114 for them. W2k boot time with one St3500418as was 24s (plus 4s added Bios time, or 2s non-Raid) on a PIII Tualatin 1.4GHz, as compared to 24s- with one J8160 on the original ICH2. It has at least 119MB/s throughput on Intel Pci (not Via nor Ali!), does use Ahci (observed), accesses Dvd drives easily, has a Raid bios and a faster-to-boot non-Raid Bios, easy to change. For W2k and later I have the excellent SiI3124. My far better solution was a Sata host card on Pci. It blocked an otherwise sound Bios with safe sizes everywhere, or run at the Bios but not with Seatools, FDisk, or as a secondary disk on W2k. To connect a Pata ribbon on a Sata disk I had a Hxsp-071218 card which is bad. Dirt-cheap at eBay, and it works very well, with 75MB/s contiguous throughput just as the disks provides in Pata access time in 0.2ms longer. To connect a Sata cable on a Pata disk I have an RXD-628B (or RXD-6288?) card with a chip RXD 001 plus something lengthy.
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