Re: IDE Hard disk reverts from DMA to PIO

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From: G. Michael Askew (michael_at_nospamaskewonline.co.uk)
Date: 02/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 23:18:04 -0000

I've swapped the cable from a new, longer cable (80-wire) to an older
shorter one that was on my own PC, so it's not that. I'll have a closer
look at the connections/pins tomorrow.
A new IDE controller would be a lot cheaper than a mobo because it's a
2002 socket 370 celeron mobo using SDRAM, so unless I found another
similar mobo on ebay it'd be a new mobo, cpu, and some DDR Ram.

How feasable is booting from a HDD on an IDE controller card? I'm
wondering about drivers
and/or setting the boot order in BIOS.

M <spamtrap@spambouncer.org> wrote:
> There is no reason not to run the hard drive from the second IDE channel
> I would suspect that is more likely a faulty hard drive
> or IDE cable (my guess is the cable). If it turns out to be a faulty IDE
> controller on the motherboard you could install an IDE controller (RAID)
> card although replacing the motherboard might not cost a lot more. 

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