Drive Image performance

[Lemon Jelly]

I've had an interesting discussion on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
regarding the speed that DI5 & 2002 runs at. If the PQDI line in the
various autoexec.bat within the *.VFD files have the " /ide=on" switch
added, you can expect a speed gain of 0-4 times during image creation.

Using DI5, I edited the Default.vfd files autoexec.bat which is used
when rebooting from XP to Caldera DOS, then added " /CMD=QIMAGE_BACKUP
/PWRDWN=0 /ide=ON" to the PQFD.vfd file which appears to be used for
running from QuickImage. My speed increased by just over 2x (690MB/min
with high comp & no options, Asus A7V266-E/Xp1800+) whilst others have
reported anything from none to over 4x image creation speed. This switch
is mentioned on PQ's site but only in the context of using it with a
specific error code, without that much info on why or what it does.

Has anyone else tried this & has it effected reliability at all? DI5 has
been bomb proof for me. The switch can obviously be added to the 2nd DI
DOS boot disc's autoexec.bat as well.

Regards, Paul

[tvoltagg]

I've had an interesting discussion on comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
regarding the speed that DI5 & 2002 runs at. If the PQDI line in the
various autoexec.bat within the *.VFD files have the " /ide=on" switch
added, you can expect a speed gain of 0-4 times during image creation.

Using DI5, I edited the Default.vfd files autoexec.bat which is used
when rebooting from XP to Caldera DOS, then added " /CMD=QIMAGE_BACKUP
/PWRDWN=0 /ide=ON" to the PQFD.vfd file which appears to be used for
running from QuickImage. My speed increased by just over 2x (690MB/min
with high comp & no options, Asus A7V266-E/Xp1800+) whilst others have
reported anything from none to over 4x image creation speed. This switch
is mentioned on PQ's site but only in the context of using it with a
specific error code, without that much info on why or what it does.

Has anyone else tried this & has it effected reliability at all? DI5 has
been bomb proof for me. The switch can obviously be added to the 2nd DI
DOS boot disc's autoexec.bat as well.

Regards, Paul

I just found about this switch myself and use it in Drive Image 5 and 2002 and increased my speeds from 200 Meg/min to 1 GIG/min at low compression. Works great.

One thing that did happen though, is that PQDI could not recognize my partition that started beyond the 137 gig boundary (it's a 200 gig drive). Anyone else find this?