No, and you don't really need it - as long as the drive is running in DMA
mode at its maximum you will see little differance between
the Intel ATA controller and the newest VIA or SIS controllers, Years ago
Intel controllers were slightly faster than that of other makers if the non
intel board had the rigth drive, however with out the right driver old VIA
and SIS boards were dog slow and always defaulted to PIO transfer, now few
hardware sites even bother teating the embedded disk controller thruput.
However if it is an old socket7 board, yes the correct drivers really are
need.
I remeber poking arround bench marking IAA vs stand drivers on an Intel 820,
changing to ATA66 HD and cable etc etc and at the end of the day the IAA
drivers were _slower_ than the standard driver. However the IAA did -show- a
higher thrup in disk benchmarking, just the stopwatch didnot agree. I always
use this good old system to measure the speed, get a nice fat file and copy
from one disk partition to another using a stopwatch. load the new driver.
remove copy and test again, compare . My system is using an old 13 gig
maxtor and it does the following. I also measure bootup time befor and after
and if you have a horrid program like photoshop, you can see how quick it
loads before and after.
"dOTdASH" <> wrote in message
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> does such a thing exist ? if so, where do I find it ? TIA
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