GA-P55A UD3P - Poor IDE performance / corrupt files

StNick

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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.
 

StNick

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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?