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Weird IDE problem

#1 Post by MichaelMeier » Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:02 am

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#2 Post by JHEM » Fri Feb 11, 2005 9:31 am

Michael,

I would have to ask for some additional information before I'd want to hazard an opinion on this.

What are the models of the HDs? Are the Seagates much older than the Maxtor and the Seagate on the primary IDE?

What IDE controller do you have on the MB? DMA enabled on all drives?

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#3 Post by MichaelMeier » Fri Feb 11, 2005 10:14 am

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#4 Post by gazingwa » Fri Feb 11, 2005 11:10 am

try jumpering the drives cable select... on newer machines that causes the least amount of problems
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#5 Post by MichaelMeier » Sat Feb 12, 2005 2:30 am

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#6 Post by selvan777 » Sat Feb 12, 2005 1:51 pm

There's also an entry in the registry that can enable ultra DMA if your hardware supports it.

Have a look at my homepage under tweaks, performance.
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#7 Post by MichaelMeier » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:56 pm

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#8 Post by selvan777 » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:33 pm

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#9 Post by BillMorrow » Sat Feb 12, 2005 11:57 pm

might be you were using cable select cables and had the drives jumpered for master and slave rather than CS..
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