Busmastering with lastest Via drivers

[Zoe]

After you install the 4in1's, check you disk drives in device manager. If your hard drives are identified as "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47," your busmastering drivers did not install properly. Just install them manually from device manager.

 

[Technonut]

Have you benchmarked your drives using the Via drivers? Performance sucks big time compared to the MS installed drivers with the DMA box checked in device manager. Use Harddrive Tach or Sandra's drive benchmark and compare the difference. With Win98SE the ONLY Via driver I install on any Via chipset board is the AGP driver. I never have OS crashes or BSOD's. I run a USB printer and modem with no problem. Via tech support even tells people that have had problems with their drivers & Win98SE to only install the AGP driver, since it is the only one really necessary.

My Maxtor UDMA66 20GB drive scores 15830 in Sandra with the MS drivers. The Via driver score was 11520, which is below the standard spec of 13000 for a UDMA66 drive.

 

[koeizen]

So Technonut should it be left as Generic Type47 hard disk

 

[fitzm]

"After you install the 4in1's, check you disk drives in device manager. If your hard drives are identified as "GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47," your busmastering drivers did not install properly. Just install them manually from device manager."

Mine is identified as such. How do I install them manually and should I?

 

[Technonut]

Mine shows as "Generic type 47" no problems, and great performance. I would steer clear of installing the 4 in 1 drivers except for the AGP driver. Some people have no problems with the 4 in 1's, but with 98SE they are not necessary unless you run into a problem with USB devices or something. I have set up quite a few both ways, and by far the most stable installations have been just using the AGP driver. Like I said, run some benchmarks, and you will see what I mean.

 

[Zoe]

Technonut; how do I switch back to the Windows bus-mastering drivers? Thanks.

 

[koeizen]

well the 4in1 4.23 drivers are out. I guess on my next format and reinstall i'll just use the USB and AGP drivers which are packaged separately on VIA's site. coincidence?