Re: UDMA goofed up (I think)

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Try running HD Tune(freeware).

Download and run it and see what it turns up.
http://www.hdtune.com/

Select the Info tabs and place the cursor on the drive under Drive
letter and then double click the two page icon ( copy to Clipboard )
and copy into a further message.

Select the Health tab and then double click the two page icon ( copy
to Clipboard ) and copy into a further message. Also do a full surface
scan with HD Tune.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Chuck wrote:
Hi, all. Here's my dilemma.
I was using my boy's PC the other day to rip a DVD, when I noticed
his drive was running at least 2x what mine does. SO I got to poking
around in my system info, and found many strange things. Both my HDDs
are running at a lower UDMA mode than they are rated for. In fact,
one is, I believe, running in PIO, and defeats all attempts to reset
it. Here is info, taken from EVEREST:

Computer:
Operating System Microsoft
Windows XP Home Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904
(DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name PC1 (Our PC)
User Name Chuck

Motherboard:
CPU Type Intel Pentium
4, 2800 MHz (14 x 200)
Motherboard Name Dell Dimension
4600i Motherboard Chipset Intel
Springdale-G
i865G
System Memory 1024 MB
(PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Phoenix
(08/26/04)

Storage:
IDE Controller Intel(R)
82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
IDE Controller Intel(R)
82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controllers
Disk Drive ST380011A (80
GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/100)
Disk Drive HDT722516DLAT80
(160 GB, 7200 RPM, Ultra-ATA/133)
Optical Drive LITE-ON DVDRW
SOHW-1693S


[ ST380011A (3JV9C0LL) ]

ATA Device Properties:
Model ID ST380011A
Serial Number 3JV9C0LL
Revision 3.16
Parameters 155010
cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 156250000
Buffer 2 MB
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 4
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 5
(ATA-100) Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA
2 (ATA-33) Unformatted Capacity
76294 MB

ATA Device Features:
SMART Supported
Security Mode Supported
Power Management Supported
Advanced Power Management Not Supported
Write Cache Supported
Host Protected Area Supported
Power-Up In Standby Not Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management Supported
48-bit LBA Supported
Device Configuration Overlay Supported


[ HDT722516DLAT80 (VD0D1CTCDK8WLE) ]

ATA Device Properties:
Model ID HDT722516DLAT80
Serial Number VD0D1CTCDK8WLE
Revision V43OA70A
Parameters 319120
cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors per track, 512 bytes per sector
LBA Sectors 321672960
Buffer 7674 KB (Dual
Ported, Read Ahead)
Multiple Sectors 16
ECC Bytes 51
Max. PIO Transfer Mode PIO 4
Max. UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA 6
(ATA-133) Active UDMA Transfer Mode UDMA
0 Unformatted Capacity 157067 MB

ATA Device Features:
SMART Supported
Security Mode Supported
Power Management Supported
Advanced Power Management Supported
Write Cache Supported
Host Protected Area Supported
Power-Up In Standby Supported
Automatic Acoustic Management Supported
48-bit LBA Supported
Device Configuration Overlay Supported


As you can see, one's slow, one seems to be in totally non-UDMA mode.
In Device Mgr, under Primary IDE Channel, Device 0 seems to
correspond to the ST3800, and is shown at UDMA 2. Device 1 is shown
as PIO [Transfer Mode:DMA if available], with no option to change it.
I am at a total loss. I've tried everything I can think of, from
uninstalling the HDD and rebooting in hopes it would redetect the
UDMA settings,. to registry editing. Nothing works. Help!!

Chuck


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