Windows xp asus a7a 266e adding hard drive

[ntl]

My existing machine has a 80 gb drive, windows xp home with all service
packs

I added a 160 GB drive from samsung which is only being recognised in pio
mode rather than dma

I have tried the following

I have revised the bios version from 1010 to 1012, the latest non beta,
in bios
Set Maxtor original drive to dma 5 , same as Samsung

Tried another dma 6 drive, a Hitachi 25o GB,

Formatted disc with 80 GB partition & leftover

Manually setting bios to dma 5 for both discs

Drive jumpers set directly, not cable sensed.

Tried new cable
I have tried deleting the primary ide chanel in hardware manager but it
still comes back as pio after double re boot. should I delete the
controllers all together ?



What is really interesting is that if I install windows on the new drive and
use my old as slave they both show as dma 5, but I do not wish to install
all the programs on the new disc, indeed some are location specific and
would entail repeat downloads etc.

Needless to say when swapped back to normal the new drive is back to pio



Many thanks for your thoughts

david

 

[DL]

A long shot, use Samsung hd checking utility