Help with Samsung HD321KJ

Phunky Phish

Phunky Phish

Phunky Phish

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Just installed new 320GB SATAII Samsung Spinpoint

I read in the manual with it that it is factory set to UDMA5 (100GB/sec)
I have tried to run the HUTIL so I can change it to UDMA6 (133GB/sec) but cannot for the life of me get it to work!

I downloaded to ISO image, but when I burn that using nero I just get a dos boot disk, no sign of HUTIL!

I tried creating a bootable USB but the HP USB boot creator does not want to work (says I need to instal new SM bus driver, what ever that is as I cant find that either!)

And dont ask me to use those boot cd creation tools as they dont work for me either

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH:eek:

Someone please help me!

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Sustained transfer, no, it's limited by the mechanics of the disk. You might get a better burst rate on ATA133 but the burst rate makes next to no difference in real world performance.
 
if you do wish to change it you can do it through Device manager.

Just right click my computer > properties > hardware tab > device manager, then go to "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and expand it then select the "..... Parallel ATA Control", go to either "Primary Channel" or "Secondary Channel" till you find the drive, untick "Let BIOS select Transfer Mode" if its ticked and then you should be able to set it to 133 in the drop down box above the last option, then ok it all and you'll possibly just need a restart.

hope this helps? :D
 
I thought this was set on the hard drive as a firmware setting, hence needing HUTIL and a bootable device so you can go into it cleanly and change this setting.
 
well i can set all of mine manually without the need of any utils and just doing the way i explained above. have you tried it?
 
Phunky Phish said:
I downloaded to ISO image, but when I burn that using nero I just get a dos boot disk, no sign of HUTIL!
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Are you using a SATA optical drive?

I ask as I had something similar earlier this week. I was using the Ultimate Boot CD to run HUTIL to run diags on some Samsung SATA disks and the first times I attempting to use it I was getting just what appeared to be a boot disk and no utils. I had to change the mode that the SATA ports were using in the bios which then allowed the boot image to load a DOS CD driver and hence access the area of the disk holding the utils as another drive. With the ports in the wrong mode the driver was not loaded and you were just left with the boot image. If the iso you have is created in the same way then you may be having the same issue.
 
thats wierd i've just checked the settings on my sata harddrives and i dont have any options to do with UDMA, as far as i know only P-ATA devices use UDMA...

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