|
|
#1
27th Mar 2009, 10:13
|
|||
|
|||
|
Hi
Can anyone help, I have googled this to death and tried everything I can think of. Even contacted the manufactures but had no luck (they wasn't actually very helpful). System: XPC SS59G Intel Celeron 2.66GHz SATA Primary 250GB Seagate. Seconday Samsung 1TB (HD103UJ) Windows Server 2003 SP2 1Gb RAM My secondary HDD Samsung HD103UJ (1TB) is performing particularly slow (3MB/sec) and pushing the processor to 100% when doing data transfers. The primary drive works fine. I have all the latests drivers and updates. I have checked the drive in device manager and it is stuck in PIO mode. The option to change it is ghosted. I have used a HDD diagnostic tool and the HDD is in perfect working order and supports DMA SATA etc. I have tried to force the settings in the BIOS, but there is only the option to either disable the IDE controller or select a different varient of PIO. You can enable auto DMA detect, which I have, but this still makes no difference. Have tried the drive in other machines and its fine (exceeds 60mb/s). Any ideas? Thanks Adam |
|
#2
27th Mar 2009, 10:16
|
||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
|
Tried deleting the Primary/Secondary IDE controllers in device manager?
__________________
Delete them then make sure they are gone, then reboot. They should reinstall in DMA mode. My System: Hybr!d
|
|
#3
27th Mar 2009, 10:21
|
|||
|
|||
|
Hi
Haven't tired that. Will do now and let you know. Thanks. Adam |
|
#4
27th Mar 2009, 10:26
|
|||
|
|||
|
Normally works for me, had this happen a few times.
|
|
#5
28th Mar 2009, 04:36
|
|||
|
|||
|
Hi
Tried this. Deleted secondary IDE controller and when I rebooted it installed the device again. But the problem persists. Secondary IDE controller shows PIO mode.  Going to take a screen shot and post it. Any other suggestions? I've pretty much ran out of ideas now. Cheers Adam |
|
#6
28th Mar 2009, 06:37
|
|||
|
|||
|
Try again, sometime it takes a few goes to do it.
Only other options I have found are to do an repair install. If not then a then a full install. You could also try swapping drives round on IDE channels. And rebooting. |
|
#7
28th Mar 2009, 08:25
|
|||
|
|||
|
Hi Hybrid
Thank you for helping me with this issue. I've posted some screen shots. Tried deleting the secondary IDE a few times now and hasn't changed from PIO mode. I might try a repair later today, will probably start by switching the drives and seeing if that makes any difference. I've done some research on the mobo and everything should be compatible, wondering if there is a way to force the drive into another mode rather than let it auto select. Adam |
|
#8
28th Mar 2009, 08:37
|
|||
|
|||
|
I've seen the fault for real loads of times.
DMA is auto selected at install or when doing a repair. It drops down the DMA levels and finally into PIO mode when the drive hits errors. Each lower mode means the drive spins slower, so it's a safety thing. The ONLY way to reset it is by removing and re-installing the IDE controllers or repairing the OS or a fresh install. Like I said swapping IDE channels around may kick it into life but I doubt it. |
|
#9
28th Mar 2009, 08:48
|
|||
|
|||
|
Hi
Ok thanks for the heads up. I think I'm going to leave it, I really cant be bothered to rebuild the OS, I'll leave it for another day. Again thanks for the help. Cheers Adam |
|
#10
28th Mar 2009, 08:55
|
|||
|
|||
|
If your on XP and have a CD it take 15 mins.
|
