Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > I am planning to buy a new harddisk about 10 - 20 GB. Is there any > recommandations? I am using P3V4X motherboard from ASUS with VIA chipset (I > heard there were some problems with this chipset) Anyway, an ATA66 harddisk > is what I want but I guess ATA100 with ide card is welcome too. thanx > everyone
i have the P3V4X and had trouble with DMA on the drives, with DMA off the load would get to 10-20 when copying large files(P3-800 512MB at the time), once i started using the promise ata100 controller instead of the via onboard it worked great though. p3v4x is a great board otherwise..as for hard drives the only drives i will pay money for is IBM. quantum, seagate and others i would use if the drive was free, i wouldn't pay for them though. nate -- ::: ICQ: 75132336 http://www.aphroland.org/ http://www.linuxpowered.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
