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Online Thomas

Re: MaxTransfer for IDE-CF
« on: April 16, 2006, 08:26:16 PM »

MaxTransfer has nothing to do with speed. Set it to 64k and your are fine in all situations.

You won't get more than 2MB per second with the internal IDE bus anyway.

Bye,
Thomas

Online Thomas

Re: MaxTransfer for IDE-CF
« Reply #1 on: April 16, 2006, 11:29:34 PM »
@lurkist:

64k = 64 * 1024 = 65536 = 0x10000

0xfe00 is fine, too, it's one block (512 bytes) less than 64k.

@KThunder:

It's rather so that new drives corrupt files with larger values because manufacturers don't test their drives with large values. At least that's what I heared.

There are more problems with larger MaxTransfer values than with low ones and there are new posts about MaxTransfer problems every now and then in different forums. So you cannot say that MaxTransfer is an old setting which does not affect current drives.

Bye,
Thomas

Online Thomas

Re: MaxTransfer for IDE-CF
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2006, 07:48:02 AM »

Exactly.