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"William the Wombat" <will@y.wombat.con> wrote in message news:34mva8F4bqql0U1@individual.net
> "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply-to@myweb.nl> wrote in message news:34m98nF4dkbtqU1@individual.net...
> > "William the Wombat" will@y.wombat.con> wrote in message news:34k9ouF4cufo4U1@individual.net
> > > "Alexander Grigoriev" alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:43XEd.4552$Ii4.4464@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
> > > > If you're using Windows2000 or XP:
> > > >
> > > > run REGEDIT. Go to the following key:
> > > >
> > > > HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11C
> > > > E-BFC1-08002BE10318}\0001
> > > >
> > > > if your disk is on primary IDE channel, or the same, ending with \0002
> > > > for the secondary channel.
> > > >
> > > > Delete MasterIdDataChecksum or SlaveIdDataChecksum and
> > > > MasterDeviceTimingMode* or SlaveDeviceTimingMode*. Reboot.
> > > > The drive DMA capabilities will be redetected.
> > >
> > > Yes. Running XP, so . . .
> > >
> > > I tried the above, changed the mode to 5 with the IBM Feature Tool,
> > > rebooted, then ran Feature Tool again and mode was once again back to 2.
> > >
> > > I then changed the mode to 5 again, switched off
> >
> > Or in other words, you did a cold reset.
>
> I don't think you read the OP.
Of course I did. Question is, did you? Apparently you remember it diffe-
rently as there is no indication at all in that post of powering down and up.
Nor in the reply to your own post, nor in your third post.
> A "cold reset" (if you mean switching off and on again) is part of
> the instructions which I followed many times and which failed.
So you say now. All you ever said before is that you rebooted.
>
>
> >
> > > then swapped the drive to IDE 2 as slave and ran Feature Tool.
> > > This time the mode had stayed at 5.
> >
> > Try the same but without the swap.
>
> see above - I did that many times.
So you repeat now. All you ever said before is that you rebooted.
>
>
> >
> > > Incidentally Feature Tool is now saying that the drive does not support
> > > accoustic management but that doesn't matter as I don't use it anyway. So
> > > I've got what I wanted. Thanks for your suggestion which led me to think
> > > of trying the above.
> > >
> > > Perhaps I could have got the same result by going into the bios on reboot
> > > and asking it to redect the HD.
> >
> > Or it just needed a cold reset to read the saved setting.
>
> are you deaf???
Nope, and not blind either, as you appear to be.
Did you fall out of your tree so hard that you don't even remember it?
Probably just plain dumb then.
>
>
> >
> > > Presumably, the mode 2 setting was being stored there -
> >
> > Bios usually doesn't hard program a drive. But then there *are*
> > bioses that do very strange and very unexpected things.
>
> Well it has me puzzled, but what other explanation is there?
Probably something else that you also failed to tell us but in
your imaginative wombat world are quite sure of that you did.
>
>
> >
> > > surely the registry info is irrelevant as the mode was going
> > > back to 2 before I'd booted up into Windows??
>
> ha! that one has you stumped
Actually it stumped Grigoriev, you stupid wombat.
Can't even tell one person from another.
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