GA-P55A UD3P - Poor IDE performance / corrupt files

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Hey guys,

I recently purchased a GA-P55A UD3P motherboard and so far I am very happy.... except for one issue.

I have an old IDE drive as a secondary storage. When I access this drive, the system is very slow to respond. Furthermore, I am getting random "corrupt file" errors. This seems to be isolated to the IDE drive, as my primary SATA drive has had no such problems.

It's an old drive, so I have not ruled out the possibility that it's on the way out, but it seems a bit coincidental that it has decided to break now; it was working fine on the old board only hours before. It SEEMS as though there is either a problem, or a compatibility issue with the IDE controller and my drive.

Any suggestions or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Reply to StNick

The drive is running in PIO Mode 4. Hopefully I am not such an idiot that I didn't use a ATA133 IDE ribbon, but if I *am* such an idiot, could that be the cause of the corruption?

Reply to StNick

Should be DMA mode. Cable easy to verify, should be the 80 wire vs 40 wire cable.

Reply to RetiredChief

Yeah I'm very sorry guys, turns out, I *am* that stupid.

Wrong cable. :??:

Reply to StNick

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