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Aaaargh I'm morphing into ftozzi hellllllp
I recently bought a new motherboard, into which I plugged two hard disks - a 40GB IBM and a 40GB Western Digital. Everything works okay, except Windows insists on setting the transfer mode of the IBM disk to PIO, rather than UDMA100/133. This has the effect of pulverising my CPU whenever I try to load any programs, or play any mp3s, or do anything that involves sustained transfer from the IBM disk. BIOS is set to auto-detect everything, and reports the disk as ATA100. The WD drive works fine - it gets reported as ATA100 by the BIOS, and is set to UDMA5 in Windows. Nothing I do, however, seems to convert the IBM disk away from PIO. I tried the disk in another machine, and it was set to PIO there as well.
Now these IBM disks are prone to failures, although this one in particular has served me faultlessly for almost two years now. Could the refusal to work in UDMA mode be the first signs of Hard Disk senility?
I recently bought a new motherboard, into which I plugged two hard disks - a 40GB IBM and a 40GB Western Digital. Everything works okay, except Windows insists on setting the transfer mode of the IBM disk to PIO, rather than UDMA100/133. This has the effect of pulverising my CPU whenever I try to load any programs, or play any mp3s, or do anything that involves sustained transfer from the IBM disk. BIOS is set to auto-detect everything, and reports the disk as ATA100. The WD drive works fine - it gets reported as ATA100 by the BIOS, and is set to UDMA5 in Windows. Nothing I do, however, seems to convert the IBM disk away from PIO. I tried the disk in another machine, and it was set to PIO there as well.
Now these IBM disks are prone to failures, although this one in particular has served me faultlessly for almost two years now. Could the refusal to work in UDMA mode be the first signs of Hard Disk senility?
Aaaargh I'm morphing into ftozzi hellllllp
I recently bought a new motherboard, into which I plugged two hard disks - a 40GB IBM and a 40GB Western Digital. Everything works okay, except Windows insists on setting the transfer mode of the IBM disk to PIO, rather than UDMA100/133. This has the effect of pulverising my CPU whenever I try to load any programs, or play any mp3s, or do anything that involves sustained transfer from the IBM disk. BIOS is set to auto-detect everything, and reports the disk as ATA100. The WD drive works fine - it gets reported as ATA100 by the BIOS, and is set to UDMA5 in Windows. Nothing I do, however, seems to convert the IBM disk away from PIO. I tried the disk in another machine, and it was set to PIO there as well.
Now these IBM disks are prone to failures, although this one in particular has served me faultlessly for almost two years now. Could the refusal to work in UDMA mode be the first signs of Hard Disk senility?
I recently bought a new motherboard, into which I plugged two hard disks - a 40GB IBM and a 40GB Western Digital. Everything works okay, except Windows insists on setting the transfer mode of the IBM disk to PIO, rather than UDMA100/133. This has the effect of pulverising my CPU whenever I try to load any programs, or play any mp3s, or do anything that involves sustained transfer from the IBM disk. BIOS is set to auto-detect everything, and reports the disk as ATA100. The WD drive works fine - it gets reported as ATA100 by the BIOS, and is set to UDMA5 in Windows. Nothing I do, however, seems to convert the IBM disk away from PIO. I tried the disk in another machine, and it was set to PIO there as well.
Now these IBM disks are prone to failures, although this one in particular has served me faultlessly for almost two years now. Could the refusal to work in UDMA mode be the first signs of Hard Disk senility?
And yes TN, I am ripping off your sig :p
What Operating system are you using?, also is there no way of enabling DMA in the properties menu.
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No-one should appologise for having that sig :D
Can you believe I was listening to it when I clicked on this post? :D
Can you believe I was listening to it when I clicked on this post? :D
Have you tried forcing it in your BIOS?
Operating system is Windows XP. It gives you the choice, for each device, of "PIO Only" or "DMA Where Available". Forcing the BIOS to a particular DMA mode seems to work on the BIOS report screen (where you get stats about processor, memory banks, etc), but in Windows it just switches back to PIO. There is no way to disable PIO in BIOS either - you either get the choice of a particular mode, or just "Auto".
Do both hard drives have windows xp on them?, as i had a problem when i had 2 harddrives and both had windows xp on them, only the primary boot hard drive is activated and the otherone isnt so when you try booting from the other one it will not see it, this hard drive needs to be activated but not in windows as that can cause major problems and both drives will not work (belive me it happened to me).
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No, the IBM disk has the boot partition and another FAT32 partition on it, the WD drive is one big FAT32 partition full of movies and stuff. Both are on the same cable, which is quite new, so the cable isn't at fault. I just ran a drive testing program (which operates from a DOS environment) and it reported the hard disk in good condition and set to UDMA-5. The mystery continues..
hmmmm could be a windows prob, there was a fix for XP for reporting HDD sizes wrong so it could be an XP thing.
otherwise why don't you try switch the HDD over to master and slave a DVD drive or something?
otherwise why don't you try switch the HDD over to master and slave a DVD drive or something?
Nothing would get the damned thing working in the end, so its replacement is in the post...