The procedure for changing the Maxtransfer setting
for an IDE hard drive on an A4000 is as follows:
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Double-click on the drive/partition that the WorkBench
software is located on. If you are lucky, this
will actually be named "Workbench", making
it an easy find. Other common possibilities (after
a quick poll here in Tech Support) are "Boot", "SYS", "System" or "System[X]" where
X is a Workbench version number, "DH0", "HD0", "Excalibur", "George", "Dreuxser", "Hootenanny",
etc.
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In the drive/partition window, double-click on
the drawer "Tools". Thankfully, folks
don't each name their own like they do hard drives,
so it is pretty much guaranteed to be called "Tools".
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Double-click on the icon "HDToolBox".
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The panel you see now is the main HDToolbox panel.
The upper half of the panel contains an information
window which displays the drives in your system.
If any of the drives displayed are *not* ST3144A
model drives, then they very likely need the MaxTransfer
setting changed. Select the drive you wish to change
the settings for by clicking on the information
line for that drive.
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Click on "Partition Drive".
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Now you see the Partition Panel. In the upper
half of the Partition Panel is a status bar which
displays the partitions of the hard drive. If that
bar is solid black entirely, as in the figure below
this paragraph, then the drive is one partition.
If this is the case, then follow steps 7-12, skip
step 13, and resume with step 14.
If the bar has a section that is solid black but
the remainder of the bar is filled with a cross-hatch
pattern, as in the figure below, then the drive
has more than one partition. The example shown
has three partitions. After doing step 7, you will
need to cycle through steps 8-13 for each partition
on the drive.
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Click on the "Advanced Options" button
to activate the additional controls for the Partition
Panel, as shown below.
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Click on "Change..."
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On the Change Panel, click in the field "MaxTransfer".
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The field will more than likely read 0xffffff;
(this is a SCSI Hard drive setting) This needs
to be changed to 0x1fe00 (the circles being zeros).
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Make sure to hit Return after typing in the change,
or it will not take.
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Click "OK" to return to the Partition
Panel.
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If the drive has more than one partition, click
on the next partition to select it, as in the figure
below, and return to step 8.
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Once Maxtransfer has been set for all partitions
on the drive, click the "OK" button on
the Partition Panel, to return to the Main HDToolbox
Panel.
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Click on "Save Changes to Drive".
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If there is more than one drive in the system,
select the next drive in the information window,
then click on Partition Drive, and return to Step
7.
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If all drives and partitions have been properly
set, then click "Exit".
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For the Paranoid In All of Us: Repeat steps 1-8
and check each partition to assure that the changes
have been saved.
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Reboot the system to let the changes take effect.
It is often best to turn the system off, wait a
safe interval (30 seconds), and then power the
system back on.
It is very important to remember that all of the partitions
need to have the MaxTransfer changed or the problems
will still exist when you save FrameStores to those
partitions that you did not change.
