Q: Hi everybody! my prob is like this, I baught this Maxtor HDD back in 2001 and has done fine ever stayed. I changed my comp buying a new installation and put it in as slave to my WDC WD800JB as captain. It was slow since I installed it on my comp. I checked the primary IDE channel and is set to DMA if available. but the drive is in PIO mode makes it relatively slow. shared by all logic, the drive must support DMA. Should I try to move my secondry IDE channel?
my rig: Athlon XP-M
AMD 2400 + @ 2.2ghz
ASUS xX
512 MB A7N8X-MX SE RAM
Geforce 4 64 MB graphics card (I know it sucks. Im looking for a new now)
Master Drive WDC WD800JB 80GB
Slave Drive 6L080J4 Maxtor 80GB
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
edit: I tried to move my secondary IDE channel and no luck. The hard drive is set to my Sony DW-q30a DVD burner, which is set as the slave master. any help please?
Best Answer: it will be in ide properties in device manager ..
Re:I would back up my data and then go to the drive mfgs site and d/l and run their diagnostic tools on the drive.
Re:Sounds like your drive is going. Dont' wait too long. Backup it up! If you need data recover, shoot me a line. That series of drives has issues and I have shelf of these donor drive in my lab.
Re:idi everything that the site said and no go. my drive is still in PIO mode and i looked in the event viewer and i can already see numerous atapi errors. this confirms that the drive is dead, right?
Re:Learn something new everyday!
http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Windows has an error counter on the IDE channels. When it detects a certain number of errors, it begins to slow down the drive's transfer speed until there are no more errors. This is why your drive has been put into PIO mode.
Wow, I didn't know that! Can you link me to that info?
Re:Definately backup your data! Try running the mfg diagnostic test on the drive.
Re:srry for not replying; i was away from a computer due to a trip. anyway, i tried what you said about disabling the ide channel. nothing happened. the question is like this:
should i assume the drive is dying? SpeedFan does show its fitness at a tad above half. does this mean anything? also, i can really here it when it seeks. should i get my stuff of there as soon as possible? should i try and format it and see if it helps? anyhelp would be greatly apreciated. thanks in advance.
Re:Windows has an error counter on the IDE channels. When it detects a certain number of errors, it begins to slow down the drive's transfer speed until there are no more errors. This is why your drive has been put into PIO mode.
To reset this error counter, delete the offending IDE channel and allow Windows to redetect it. This should give you back your UDMA modes.
I would not worry about this unless it continues to happen. If it happens again, then you will need to investigate the cause of these errors.
It will not hurt a thing to give this a try.
Re:you wont lose data. just reboot and windows reinstalls it with default values. it fixes many borked settings.
Re:i tried different cables as well as different channels. i don't wanna delete the channel cause i'm afraid of losing the data. but i did change it to the secondary channel and nothing changed.
Re:delete that ide channel in device manager and let windows redetect it. see what mode it comes back in.
Re:I had the same problem once – some how in the BIOS it was detected a CHS I changed it to LBA and the problem went away.
Also check the IDE cable is square or pushed in properly on the back of the HDD – I have had read/boot errors when a cable has partially unplugged itself, in the past.
Re:i believe so. i have version 1010. what do you mean manually select the drive type? i can choose between forcing it too be master, and between having it as Auto, Large, LBA or CHS.
Re:Do you have the latest BIOS on the mobo? You can't manually select the drive type in BIOS?
Re:First off, verify your hard drive jumpers are correctly set to Master and Slave (no cable select). Then, go into the BIOS and set the hard drive types to MANUAL, it should auto detect the correct settings and the dreaded PIO mode shouldn't be shown. See what that does to start.
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