If you want to get the most out of your ATA devices, you have some work ahead of you
In "Maximizing ATA Disk Performance, Part 1," January 2002, InstantDoc ID 23297, I showed you how to obtain the best possible performance from ATA (aka IDE) disks in Windows 2000. I described the market's latest ATA standards and discussed some hardware pitfalls that you might experience while attempting to properly configure your ATA disks (e.g., ATA/33, ATA/66, ATA/100). This month, I...