Have you gone to IBM's website and downloaded their test software? There
may be an issues with the HD itself - enough people other than yourself have
had problems with certain IBM HDs.
Some actually started calling them "Deathstar" rather than "Deskstar"!
I have an older IBM HD ATA66 and it is detected OK under XP & XP SP1. It is
home to a W2K install right now with XP Pro on my RAID 0 array. XP sees it
as UDMA 4 which is correct.
You have gone into control panel and the ATA/ATAPI controlers and deleted
the controler that has the problem drive? On restart XP should re-detect
the HD. If it sees it as UDMA x at the point then downgrades to PIO there
is definitly a problem either with the cable, the drive or the controler -
cable is easiest to swap.
Good Luck,
Len
"Danny Schelberg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:029901c34bbe$94a55b00$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I have been trying to understand what conditions would
> create this issue. The hardware I am using is:
>
> Asus A7V8X
> Via 4 n 1 Drivers (latest vers 4.8)
> Deskstar IC35L120AVV207-1 ATA100 IDE drive
>
> Software:
>
> Windows XP SP 1.A
>
> I have the drive setup as Master on the Primary Channel
> using an 80 Pin cable (Black connecter attached to the hd.
> drive and blue connecter to the MB.
>
> I have gone to VIAs site and researched the functionality
> of the default IDE Filter driver that Win XP is using and
> DMA5 is what transfer method it should be using for this
> drive. The Bios is set accordingly as well. The drive is
> brand new and so is the cable. Why the system is
> downgrading the drive to PIO is beyond me. The only other
> possible extenuating circumstance would be that I am also
> using 2 Scsi drives and 1 as my Boot drive. Any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Danny Schelberg
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