Re: HOW TO: Disable IDE Error Checking
From: Al Dykes (adykes_at_panix.com)
Date: 02/21/04
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Date: 21 Feb 2004 15:18:32 -0500
In article <147b301c3f8b3$c92c8b80$a601280a@phx.gbl>,
Dan <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>I need to find out how to disable the error checking that
>XP does on IDE hard drives. My system runs real fast
>until I start working with large files or alot of small
>files. Any kind of extensive movement of files whether
>reading from or writing to, XP lowers the Transfer Rate
>from UDMA5 to PIO mode which kills the performance of the
>system. When this happens it makes it impossible to work
>at all without rebooting. Any suggestions? I know my hard
>drives are perfectly fine, as it does the same thing with
>all of my drives including a new one. I am running XP Pro
>with an Athlon XP 2400+ processor and 1GB of Memory. My
>hard drives (5 of them, 4 are on the primary/secondary
>ports on the mainboard, and the 5th is on a promise pci
>controller card) are all Western Digital and vary in size
>from 100GB to 200GB. I have a clean install of XP with
>SP1 and all available patches and updates. If there is
>any other information that I'm missing which would help,
>please let me know. Thanks.
>
> Dan
>
>Note: The error checking i am referring to is when XP
>detects 6 or more CRC errors or something like that and
>downsteps the transfer rate of the ide port a given drive
>is connected to until the errors go away. In my case, PIO
>is as low as it goes, but is too slow.
Where do yo see these errors? Event Viewer ?
-- Al Dykes ----------- adykes@panix.com
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