Another option to updating the bios is to purchase a "Promise" IDE
card. When I upgraded my system to a "Promise" IDE card, I noticed a
marked improvement in my backups. It was taking me over 2 minutes to
copy a large 700 Meg file across hard disk drives before I upgraded and
now it takes about 1 minute.
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