Can speed of 2nd harddrive in 6510b DVD-bay be improved

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Installed at 8710w newmodeus adapter
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Any idea how to put the speed to UDMA6?

Intel I/O chips' IDE controller runs at a maximum of UDMA5 (100MB/s read, 88.9MB/s write). Congratulations on the good result.

[nbruser]

Installed at 8710w newmodeus adapter
Installed UDMAfix from nbruser with the latest fixes:
[PCI]
Nb=1
Addr1=8000F954
Val1=00001033

Also changed the /dev/sdb --> /dev/sda

The speed was fixed at UDMA5

The speed of my hard disk went from 15MB/sec --> 75MB/sec

THANK YOU nbruser

Any idea how to put the speed to UDMA6?

you're welcome

I guess bay limits the speed to UDMA5, you can't get UDMA6 on it I'm afraid.

[poople]

@ nbruser:
Your script has failed on my HP 8510w running Win7x64. My investigation leads to the BAR-Edit.exe which needs a TVicPort.dll. Where is that from? Please advise.

Many Thanks.

[User Retired 2]

@ nbruser:
Your script has failed on my HP 8510w running Win7x64. My investigation leads to the BAR-Edit.exe which needs a TVicPort.dll. Where is that from?

Install baredit and you'll get that file.

[nbruser]

Yeah it's in %WINDIR% (C:\WINDOWS), forgot about this. Just do what nando said.

[nbruser]

installed 1TB WD WD10TPVT in caddy
speed is great comparing to older Fujitsu, around 75 mb/sec for reads and 54 mb/sec for writes..

hdparm says HDD works in udma6, but I think it's still limited to udma5.

[poople]

Thanks Nbruser and Nando4 for your help.

That works but the result is inconsistent. Sometimes, after a sleep mode, the HD in caddy waits very long time (the dvd adapter LED is still) to get ready.

Now, I will be trying another way: I will be using a mini pci-e SSD 64gb as a primary drive, combined with the standard HD. A USB interface mini pci wifi will be put in the WWAN slot (to replace the mini pci-e wifi taken over by the SSD).

I will let you know the result as soon as I put the mini pci-e SSD to run on my 8510w.

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HP 8510W | 1920 x 1200 | 8GB DDR2 | 1 64GB MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD + 1 7200rpm 320gb | Windows 7 Ultimate x64

[nbruser]

Thanks Nbruser and Nando4 for your help.

That works but the result is inconsistent. Sometimes, after a sleep mode, the HD in caddy waits very long time (the dvd adapter LED is still) to get ready.

Now, I will be trying another way: I will be using a mini pci-e SSD 64gb as a primary drive, combined with the standard HD. A USB interface mini pci wifi will be put in the WWAN slot (to replace the mini pci-e wifi taken over by the SSD).

I will let you know the result as soon as I put the mini pci-e SSD to run on my 8510w.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
HP 8510W | 1920 x 1200 | 8GB DDR2 | 1 64GB MyDigitalSSD mSATA SSD + 1 7200rpm 320gb | Windows 7 Ultimate x64

try adding an additional trigger:

Trigger: 'On Event'
Journal: 'System'
Source: 'Power-Troubleshooter'

so script will be executed again after your computer woke up.

[User Retired 2]

try adding an additional trigger:

so script will be executed again after your computer woke up.

@nbruser - pciutils for Windows is available here, which makes scripting this solution very easy. I found the 32bit binary works fine for 32-bit and 64-bit Win7.

fast2ndd.bat

@setpci -s 0:1f.2  54.w=1033
@hdparm -X udma5 /dev/sdb

[nbruser]

oh nice, just need to replace baredit with it!