PIO? ATA? help!

[San]

I have a Abit KG7 board and the new Maxtor D740X HD. In the bios I set everything to "auto", but everytime I boot the computer, it shows me ATA33 for my HD. How do I do this, I don't understand this PIO mode Ultra DMA?

Note: Only my HD resides on my Primary IDE port.

Thanks

 

[Black_Cat]

Do you have an 80 wire IDE cable?

I can't think of a good signature so I'll use this one.

 

[Crashman]

Probably a cable problem as mentioned. If your drive cable looks like a wider version of the floppy cable, it only supports UDMA33. If it has wires that are half that size, so that there are 80 instead of 40, it supports UDMA66/100.

PIO means Prgramable Input Output, and was the tranfer mode used a long time ago before Direct Memory Addressing drives became available. Nothing to worry about there, set it to auto in BIOS and enable DMA in Windows.

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

 

[San]

You're right, I replaced my current wire with a new IDE wire, and lo-and-behold : ATA100 shows up in my boot. Thanks guys.