ccl0 Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 i thought i'd post this here. i figured some might want to tinker around with it http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/more info and discussion about it http://www.msfn.org/board/Universal-ATA-dr...ted-t97153.html Quote
NIM Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 Specify more information next time please, copy the post contents, don't just provide two links and that's it Quote
ccl0 Posted March 18, 2008 Author Posted March 18, 2008 Specify more information next time please, copy the post contents, don't just provide two links and that's it umm.. what more specifics would you want me to provide that isnt mentioned in those two links? Quote
NIM Posted March 18, 2008 Posted March 18, 2008 umm.. what more specifics would you want me to provide that isnt mentioned in those two links? That is the point, you provided only LINKS. Copy post contents in this post and put a source link at the bottom of this post.. Quote
ccl0 Posted March 18, 2008 Author Posted March 18, 2008 (edited) Copy post contents in this post and put a source link at the bottom of this post.. i still dont understand what you are trying to say... copy and post what contents? contents of the website? ...a curious person clicks on the link and finds all the information about it... what would be the point of me copying and pasting all that info when its just one click away..maybe you can give me an example to better clarify Edited March 18, 2008 by ccl0 Quote
NIM Posted March 19, 2008 Posted March 19, 2008 i still dont understand what you are trying to say... copy and post what contents? contents of the website? ...a curious person clicks on the link and finds all the information about it... what would be the point of me copying and pasting all that info when its just one click away..maybe you can give me an example to better clarifyForget it. Quote
MrNxDmX Posted March 20, 2008 Posted March 20, 2008 N1K just requested you to post some info about it. Like:OverviewWho and why need this driver ? Let me tell you: it worth installing UniATA if vendor of your new motherboard do not want to supply you with drivers for your old OS. Or vice versa, you have old motherboard and want to install new Windows with it. Of course, it is possible to use standard (generic) drivers those most probably supports this hardware. But what about performance ? You will have PIO mode with 0.5 - 3 Mb/sec transfer rate. UniATA shall use DMA or UltraDMA and have up to 10 times better performance. There is still one common problem with modern hard driver of more than 128 Gb capacity (also known as LBA-48 or BigLba). Old OSes do not support such drives at all, new ones require latest Service Packs. UniATA has built-in support for large drives. And at last - upgrade or downgrade of the motherboard. If you simply connect your harddisk to different motherboard, the driver of the previous one shall not recognize new IDE controller. And the system shall not boot. You will have to connect everything back, change IDE drivers to generic ones, reboot and reconnect hardware again, then change drivers to new ones. You cannot even think about walking with bootable harddrive to some other computers. Or resign yourself to have 0.5 - 3 Mb/sec transfer rate. Since UniATA supports numerous IDE controllers and in addition is capable of driving all standard (onboard primary/secondary) controllers, this problem also appears to be solved. Below you can find more detailed and more technical feature list.Features * DMA/UDMA support (up to ATA-133) on known and generic DMA on unknown controllers * LBA48 (large drives greater than 128Gb) support * SerialATA support (SATA, SATA-2) * NT3.51 (including i386 version), NT4, 2000, XP, 2003 support (may be 2005 - not tested) * support of contiguous set of modes UDMA0-UDMA6 (ATA-16/25/33/44/66/100/133) * Support of numerous IDE controllers and generic ATA/ATAPI * no reinstall required when migrating to different IDE controller or motherboard. * internal command queueing and optimized execution order of read/write requests * user-mode device management utility atactl.exe. You can change data transfer mode (PIO/DMA/UDMA) on the fly. * tuning Read/Write cache, transfer modes and many other things via Registry settings * list of bad/unreliable blocks, to prevent driver from treating HDD but return error immediately (Nikolai Vorontsov).More info on source: http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/ Quote
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