WD Raptor Problem

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thebigbopper

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Hi

I have just installed a Western Digital Raptor on my Abit AS8 based system with a fresh install of windows xp. The Raptor is now the system disc and is running windows. I also have 2 other IDE hard drives for data storage.

I have noticed that the Raptor is only running on 100 rather than the 150 its capable of, I also noticed it is on Udma 5 rather than 6. When I look in device manager it shows the disk driver as being the same driver as my IDE drives are using - is this right?

The truth is I am not sure how to set this up to run as it should do and I don't quite understand the manual about the bios settings. I really can't see from the manual what I should be setting and to what even after reading it through and through. Can anybody tell me how to set this up correctly - any help greatly appreciated as I'm going nuts about this. I really need a step by step explanation to this as I am not at all familiar with serial ata.

regards

Phil
 
Hi

Thanks for the reply

Yes my other drives are indeed running at 100 - how does this affect the raptor as it it not on the same channel? Is there something I can do about this to fix the problem?

Many thanks

Phil
 
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thebigbopper said:
Yes my other drives are indeed running at 100 - how does this affect the raptor as it it not on the same channel? Is there something I can do about this to fix the problem?
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This new high-speed interface boosts data transfer rates to up to 150 MB/sec.
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Who knows....maybe a bad board, Never heard of that, though. The reason they put in that disclaimer is so that you can't go blaming them:D
 
is kind of like if your board's ata100 even if you plug in a ata133 hdd it will still run at 100. try just having only the raptor plugged in and see if it runs at 150.
 
kof2000 said:
is kind of like if your board's ata100 even if you plug in a ata133 hdd it will still run at 100. try just having only the raptor plugged in and see if it runs at 150.
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No, the board supports 150.
 
Western Digital said:
Transfer Rates
Buffer To Host (Serial ATA) 150 MB/s (Max)
Buffer To Disk 72 MB/s (Sustained)
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As was stated, 150 is the max and thats buffer to host.
 
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