ATA 100 H.D.D. not running correctly.

[Craig]

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Hi,
I'm looking for a little assistance on the following matter;

I rebuilt my Dad's P.C. at the weekend, removed an old H.D.D. installed a
new one, formatted it, then installed XP Pro and SP1.
The install went fine. I then downloaded and installed the latest VIA 4-in-1
drivers, the AMD northbridge driver and the latest Nvidia driver. The driver
install also went without any hitches.
The problem is that the H.D.D. is set to Multi-Word DMA Mode 2 (from
memory). I don't seem to be able to change this to UDMA Mode 5.

Any ideas anyone?

The details of the P.C. follow;
Gigabyte GA-7DX
AMD Athlon 2100XP
768MB DDR 333
Chaintech Geforce4 MX440
80GB Western Digital H.D.D.
Sony 52X CD Rom
Sony 52X CD Writer
Can't remember the P.S.U. manufacturer.

TIA.

 

[Guest]

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What's the IDE cable? 40 or 80 conductor? 40 conductor can only handle
UDMA-2......
(they're both 40pin, but the 80-conductor cable has ground lines between
every data line to stop overhearing..)


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"Craig" <1@1.COM> kirjoitti viestissä
news:cp21ca$r2t$1@titan.btinternet.com...
> Hi,
> I'm looking for a little assistance on the following matter;
>
> I rebuilt my Dad's P.C. at the weekend, removed an old H.D.D. installed a
> new one, formatted it, then installed XP Pro and SP1.
> The install went fine. I then downloaded and installed the latest VIA
4-in-1
> drivers, the AMD northbridge driver and the latest Nvidia driver. The
driver
> install also went without any hitches.
> The problem is that the H.D.D. is set to Multi-Word DMA Mode 2 (from
> memory). I don't seem to be able to change this to UDMA Mode 5.
>
> Any ideas anyone?
>
> The details of the P.C. follow;
> Gigabyte GA-7DX
> AMD Athlon 2100XP
> 768MB DDR 333
> Chaintech Geforce4 MX440
> 80GB Western Digital H.D.D.
> Sony 52X CD Rom
> Sony 52X CD Writer
> Can't remember the P.S.U. manufacturer.
>
> TIA.
>
>

 

[Dee]

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Thomas Wendell wrote:

> What's the IDE cable? 40 or 80 conductor? 40 conductor can only handle
> UDMA-2......
> (they're both 40pin, but the 80-conductor cable has ground lines between
> every data line to stop overhearing..)
>
>

To stop overhearing what?

 

[Guest]

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On Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:40:29 -0500, Dee <dee@home.net>
wrote:

>Thomas Wendell wrote:
>
>> What's the IDE cable? 40 or 80 conductor? 40 conductor can only handle
>> UDMA-2......
>> (they're both 40pin, but the 80-conductor cable has ground lines between
>> every data line to stop overhearing..)
>>
>>
>
>To stop overhearing what?

Cross talk.

 

[Craig]

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What's the IDE cable? 40 or 80 conductor?

I'm fairly positive it's a 40 conductor, I bought several IDE cables to try
and eliminate this problem, tried them all with no luck.

 

[Guest]

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"Craig" <1@1.COM> wrote in news:cp3o9l$g3g$1@sparta.btinternet.com:

> What's the IDE cable? 40 or 80 conductor?
>
> I'm fairly positive it's a 40 conductor, I bought several IDE cables
> to try and eliminate this problem, tried them all with no luck.
>
>
>

You gotta have an 80pin cable to get the faster speeds.

 

[Guest]

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John Smithe wrote:
> "Craig" <1@1.COM> wrote in news:cp3o9l$g3g$1@sparta.btinternet.com:
>
>
>>What's the IDE cable? 40 or 80 conductor?
>>
>>I'm fairly positive it's a 40 conductor, I bought several IDE cables
>>to try and eliminate this problem, tried them all with no luck.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> You gotta have an 80pin cable to get the faster speeds.

Just so he's not confused, that should an 80 -conductor- cable. The
connector pin count is still 40.