DMA drive stuck at PIO mode; performance is horrible, please help!

[Etienne Mitchel]

I had a series of ATAPI errors,
From the System log:Warning:
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging
operation. "
Error:
"The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout
period." >>>>


and now my hard drive a Western Digital 80 gig special edition (8MB cache)
is running in PIO mode and I'm lost at what to do to return it to DMA.
Please let me know if you find a fix. Performance is horrible now. Transfer
mode is at "DMA if available" and the CMOS has DMA enabled.

 

[Russ Tanner]

I had that problem with a 40 gb Western Digital HD 3 years ago with my
computer running Win2k and an Abit MB with VIA chip set. It would always
revert back to PIO mode and the CPU use would be 100% and the performance
was horrid. I ended up taking the drive back to CompUSA and getting a Maxtor
80 GB HD. It worked fine, and still does 3 years later.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I had a series of ATAPI errors,
From the System log:
Warning:
"An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk0\DR0 during a paging
operation. "
Error:
"The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout
period." >>>>


and now my hard drive a Western Digital 80 gig special edition (8MB cache)
is running in PIO mode and I'm lost at what to do to return it to DMA.
Please let me know if you find a fix. Performance is horrible now. Transfer
mode is at "DMA if available" and the CMOS has DMA enabled.

Hi,

Make sure you have the latest motherboard IDE driver set
and then work to system and remove the ide controllers
that you have installed now. After you do this shut down
system and then reboot into win2k. When the system starts
it will find ide controller. lead it to the driver and it
will be fixed again. Then after you get that fixed then do
a disk compaction.
Luck