IDE drive problems on P4C800

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Did you install the ide driver off the CD?

Homer

"Lorenzo Sandini" <lorenzo.sandiniPOISTA@uku.fi> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Having nothing important on my drives, I moved a 60GB ATA133 and a 160GB
> ATA133 drives from an Intel 845GERG2 motherboard to a P4C800.
>
> No wonder windows would not boot (but the windows install on the drives
> that I moved from the P4C800 to the intel mobo booted just fine).
>
> So I did a clean winxp install on the master 60GB drive, with the 160GB
> drive as slave for storage, only to be disappointed with the performance
> of both IDE drives. DMA is enabled on both channels of the controller, for
> master and slave. Moreover, I could not benchmark the 60GB drive either
> with HDTach or Sandra, boh hang with CPU errors (?!). Benchmarking the
> slave 160GB drive works fine, but sustained drive speed is 30 MB/s...
>
> I moved the drives from the blue connector to the black connector and
> aaaah, performance is mucho better, 60GB is still unbenchmarkable (whoa, a
> new word), and the slave drive works like it should, ATA100 at least.
>
> I installed intel's INF file correctly, I have no idea why the drives
> behave this way. Any suggestion ?
>
> Lorenzo
>

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Thank you for your suggestion, I had set it to [P-ATA], I'll try [S-ATA]
next week-end.

Lorenzo



"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
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> In article <3at11lF6d53uoU1@individual.net>, "Lorenzo Sandini"
> <lorenzo.sandiniPOISTA@uku.fi> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Having nothing important on my drives, I moved a 60GB ATA133 and a 160GB
>> ATA133 drives from an Intel 845GERG2 motherboard to a P4C800.
>>
>> No wonder windows would not boot (but the windows install on the drives
>> that
>> I moved from the P4C800 to the intel mobo booted just fine).
>>
>> So I did a clean winxp install on the master 60GB drive, with the 160GB
>> drive as slave for storage, only to be disappointed with the performance
>> of
>> both IDE drives. DMA is enabled on both channels of the controller, for
>> master and slave. Moreover, I could not benchmark the 60GB drive either
>> with
>> HDTach or Sandra, boh hang with CPU errors (?!). Benchmarking the slave
>> 160GB drive works fine, but sustained drive speed is 30 MB/s...
>>
>> I moved the drives from the blue connector to the black connector and
>> aaaah,
>> performance is mucho better, 60GB is still unbenchmarkable (whoa, a new
>> word), and the slave drive works like it should, ATA100 at least.
>>
>> I installed intel's INF file correctly, I have no idea why the drives
>> behave
>> this way. Any suggestion ?
>>
>> Lorenzo
>
> Your BIOS is set incorrectly. When using Enhanced mode, there is only
> one "valid" setting for the "Enhanced mode support on" setting.
> It should be set to [S-ATA], even if that is counter-intuitive.
> There have been reports, that using the other two settings, causes
> rates slower than ATA100 to be used for IDE drives. So, follow
> the advice in the user manual, in the section "Required IDE
> Configuration Settings in BIOS", and use the [S-ATA] setting.
>
> It does sound though, like your 60GB drive is not happy. I
> don't know whether the BIOS setting will make it work or
> not.
>
> Paul