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Test System Configuration
We tested these two drives on the following system with both a clean installation of Windows 98 Second Edition and Windows 2000 Professional, both using FAT32. The test drives were loaded on the primary master channel of our motherboard's built-in UDMA-66 controller of the AMD-756 Southbridge. Each other drives had only 1 partition that used the entire capacity of each drive and the operating system was installed directly onto these partitions:
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Test System |
| CPU |
AMD Athlon ("Classic") 650MHz |
| Motherboard |
ASUS K7M (AMD "Irongate" 751) |
| Memory |
192MB "Generic" PC100 SDRAM |
| Video |
PowerColor nVidia Riva TNT2 Pro (nVidia Detonator Reference Drivers v5.32) |
| Hard Drive |
IBM Deskstar 34GXP 20GB
Quantum Fireball Plus LM 30GB |
| Sound |
Sound Blaster Live! Value* |
| CD-ROMs |
Panasonic 24X
Acer CD-RW 6x2x2x |
| Network |
Realtech 10BaseT Network Interface Card |
| Windows |
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition (4.10.2222 A)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (5.00.2195) |
* No extra drivers were installed, used only the built-in drivers if they were included in the Windows 98/2000 installation CDs.
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