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Old 16-09-2006, 12:41 PM
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I ran some benchmarks and noticed a speed issue.
For the users who have Mac Pro's a few changes can speed things up.
bootcamp by default will not work correctly with a Mac Pro the drivers it uses for SATA will not support SATA2 disk activity so you run at 1/10 the disk capabilities from 3.7Mb/sec to 60Gb/sec
Some notes are avaliable online for this process on making a new Windows XP CD with the correct drivers.
http://71.18.168.229/xp.html <-- seems to have the easiest instructions.

Also another thing to check is the actually hardware, i had the two issues in windows it was slow and in mac osx it was slow.
Though coming from a Powermac G5 it was still counted as fast but i couldnt go over the speed of SATA1.

Their is a jumper on all the Seagate SATA2 disks to set them by default to SATA1.
If you want to disk to do SATA2 speeds in your Mac Pro you need to change the jumper, the instructions are on top of the disk.
I was in a rush to put it in the machine I didnt even think they'd do something like that
Just a tip incase anyone else has done this.

Apparently Western Digitals are defaulted to SATA2
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Old 16-09-2006, 12:50 PM
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i assume you know that Bootcamp 1.1.1 was released yesterday...
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Old 16-09-2006, 12:52 PM
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no been to busy getting this to work.
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Old 16-09-2006, 01:08 PM
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bootcamp version 1.1.1 still doesnt fix the SATA drives still in PIO mode issue which is "the" driver issue.
reading some posts off of macrumor's mac pro forums.
Apple fixed a lot of stuff though it appears in 1.1.1
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