maxtor hd tweaks

[dethman]

How are peoples' experiences flashing maxtor drives from ata66 to ata100 and changing the operation from silent to the faster mode? Any problems? Any differences?

I have the 60GB drive, and i just don't want to screw up the 40GB of data i have on it

 

[LarryS]

How do you change it from silent to the faster mode? I have a Maxtor 20gig 7200rpm drive.. and it really isn't as quick as I think it should be. (It's going through an ata66 controller)

 

[CHHASmatroxuser]

Go to Maxtor's site, the utility is called AMSET.

I have a DM40+ 30GB and AMSET tells me that my drive is incompatible, some of my fellow MURC'ers have experienced the same.

I have mailed Maxtor, but not recieved any replies as of yet.

 

[dethman]

yes, on maxtor's site, there are two utilities, one called AMSET and one called UDMAUPDT (66to100.exe). these two will apparently flash the drive to newer firmware, provided your drive is new enough. I just did it about an hour ago, it was painless but didn't seem to really do anything in terms of performance.