Efren I.
December 7th 03, 12:00 AM
My new hard drive (Western Digital 2000JB) is currently
running in PIO mode instead of UDMA mode 5, as it should
be. The problem is, I think it *was* originally running
in UDMA5, but since then I've replaced a hard drive on
its IDE channel with a CD-RW, and installed various
drivers and apps (including, I think, SP1). This is a
brand new reformat/reinstall of the OS, which is why I'm
doing a lot of install work.
The old hard drive, by the way, was a 30GB Western
Digital, and it was able to run at UDMA mode 5 with the
CD-RW attached to the same channel. Here's a list of the
things I've tried so far:
-Uninstalling and reinstalling the IDE chipset drivers
(multiple times)
-Uninstalling the IDE controller in Device Manager and
letting it be redetected
-Verified that Windows is set to run the channel in "DMA
if available."
-Checking the SMART status of the hard drive (no errors)
-Swapping the IDE cables and checking to make sure
they're properly attached, and verifying that they're
proper 80-pin cables
-Swapping the master/slave status of the hard drive and
CD-RW on the IDE channel
-Running the hard drive on its IDE channel without the CD-
RW (by itself)
-Installing a newer version of atapi.sys, as found in a
newer hotfix (the hotfix was for a different
problem...the 48-bit addressing issue, I think)
Other things I might try eventually:
-Reinstalling the old 30GB hard drive to see if it has a
problem
-Testing the new hard drive in a different computer
-Reinstalling Windows
In the Event Viewer, Windows gives six errors which
say "The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond
within the timeout period." or "The driver detected a
controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0." The errors
occur during startup; I remember reading somewhere that
this is Windows detecting some sort of error, and
stepping down the UDMA mode of the drive, eventually
reaching PIO in extreme cases, like mine.
The current status of my IDE channels is as follows:
Primary: Master: 200GB WD2000JB: PIO
Slave: CD-RW: Multi-word DMA Mode 2
Secondary:Master: DVD drive: Ultra DMA Mode 2
Slave: Zip drive: PIO
Other hardware of note: Asus A7A266 motherboard w. Athlon
1333Mhz, 256MB PC133 RAM, Asus V6600 (Geforce 256),
Audigy, ...
Is there anything else I can try to coax the drive back
into UDMA mode 5?
running in PIO mode instead of UDMA mode 5, as it should
be. The problem is, I think it *was* originally running
in UDMA5, but since then I've replaced a hard drive on
its IDE channel with a CD-RW, and installed various
drivers and apps (including, I think, SP1). This is a
brand new reformat/reinstall of the OS, which is why I'm
doing a lot of install work.
The old hard drive, by the way, was a 30GB Western
Digital, and it was able to run at UDMA mode 5 with the
CD-RW attached to the same channel. Here's a list of the
things I've tried so far:
-Uninstalling and reinstalling the IDE chipset drivers
(multiple times)
-Uninstalling the IDE controller in Device Manager and
letting it be redetected
-Verified that Windows is set to run the channel in "DMA
if available."
-Checking the SMART status of the hard drive (no errors)
-Swapping the IDE cables and checking to make sure
they're properly attached, and verifying that they're
proper 80-pin cables
-Swapping the master/slave status of the hard drive and
CD-RW on the IDE channel
-Running the hard drive on its IDE channel without the CD-
RW (by itself)
-Installing a newer version of atapi.sys, as found in a
newer hotfix (the hotfix was for a different
problem...the 48-bit addressing issue, I think)
Other things I might try eventually:
-Reinstalling the old 30GB hard drive to see if it has a
problem
-Testing the new hard drive in a different computer
-Reinstalling Windows
In the Event Viewer, Windows gives six errors which
say "The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond
within the timeout period." or "The driver detected a
controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0." The errors
occur during startup; I remember reading somewhere that
this is Windows detecting some sort of error, and
stepping down the UDMA mode of the drive, eventually
reaching PIO in extreme cases, like mine.
The current status of my IDE channels is as follows:
Primary: Master: 200GB WD2000JB: PIO
Slave: CD-RW: Multi-word DMA Mode 2
Secondary:Master: DVD drive: Ultra DMA Mode 2
Slave: Zip drive: PIO
Other hardware of note: Asus A7A266 motherboard w. Athlon
1333Mhz, 256MB PC133 RAM, Asus V6600 (Geforce 256),
Audigy, ...
Is there anything else I can try to coax the drive back
into UDMA mode 5?