richcornucopia Posted February 11, 2006 CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 Well I always thought my hardrive had started dying because it would transfer super slow, but now I have realized that it is actually in pio mode instead of dma 5 like the other drive. I've got it set to dma if available but it always goes to pio. What could the problem be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 Also, they are the exact same hardrive. I cannot get it to boot when they are on the same ide channel so I have to use a different one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 11, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 11, 2006 Does anybody have any ideas Im about ready to throw this damn hardrive out the window. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
project51 Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Well I always thought my hardrive had started dying because it would transfer super slow, but now I have realized that it is actually in pio mode instead of dma 5 like the other drive. I've got it set to dma if available but it always goes to pio. What could the problem be? If it's keep on reverting to PIO, it may be already damage... or you have installed a damage Harddisk. Is it a SATA? try intalling a chipset driver !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Nope its a samsung 160 ide, it doesnt make any weird noises so i dont think its damaged. Im trying it on linux to see if it is a windows only problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Thanks for the suggestion but I've done all of that multiple times so I guess I should just declare the drive dead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 It might be, Windows XP will turn off DMA (and only use PIO) when several DMA transfer errors occur. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Is pio much slower than if dma was working because the drive seems super slow when moving files from the good to bad drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Samsung should have some utilities on their website for their HDDs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Tried them and it cant detect either of the drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peepnklown Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 PIO is a lot slower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticWolf Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Also, they are the exact same hardrive. I cannot get it to boot when they are on the same ide channel so I have to use a different one. I'm gonna try and explain this properly and hopefully my wording is clear enough. Ex: IDE cable 1) Master (Hard Drive ATA100) and a slave drive (CD Burner ATA33) .... the bios will use the lowest setting on that cable ... which would be ATA33 .... which means Your hard drive runs at ATA33 Now if You did this IDE cable 1)Master (Hard Drive ATA100) and slave drive (your 2nd hard drive ATA100) ,then both would run at ATA100 . I hope you understand what I mean... if not I know I can find a website on it. So my suggestion is to find the jumper settings for your 2nd hard drive and set it to slave and hook it to the same ide cable as your main drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 It wont boot if I put the hardrives on the same channel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticWolf Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 It wont boot if I put the hardrives on the same channel. Do you have 2 different OS'es like Win XP on one drive and Linux on the other?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Nope, the bad drive is formatted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticWolf Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Hmmm i found this http://sniptools.com/tipstricks/getting-back-to-dma-mode-in-windows-xp if i find anything else I'll post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Unfortunately I've tried that too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArcticWolf Posted February 12, 2006 CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 what else can I suggest .... try unconnecting your main drive and replace it with the drive your trying to get DMA to work on and see what the bios reads. It could also be a defective cable where only one of the connectors is working right and the ohter connected might be screwed up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 12, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 12, 2006 Yep I've pretty much given up, I'm just gonna order a new hardrive from newegg it's prolly time to upgrade to sataII anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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