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Livingston Dell · 10-04-2003, 10:08 AM

I finally have my new HD installed after many delays this week and just have one other question

Details on the drive i bought:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=27

When i checked the device manager, the current trasfer mode of the first device in the primary IDE channel is Ultra DMA mode 5, whereas the second device (the new HD) has been set to PIO mode.

Is this a general bug with XP (as i've had this on the secondary IDE channel with two CD drives) that the transfer mode of the second device on an IDE channel is often set to PIO, or is this what it should be getting detected as?

Should i just uninstall the Primary IDE channel from the device manager and get XP to correct it on next boot up?

** Edit **
Sorted it now with some BIOS setting trickery. Thanks

10-04-2003, 10:08 AM	#7
Livingston Dell Member (5 bit) Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 31	I finally have my new HD installed after many delays this week and just have one other question Details on the drive i bought: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=27 When i checked the device manager, the current trasfer mode of the first device in the primary IDE channel is Ultra DMA mode 5, whereas the second device (the new HD) has been set to PIO mode. Is this a general bug with XP (as i've had this on the secondary IDE channel with two CD drives) that the transfer mode of the second device on an IDE channel is often set to PIO, or is this what it should be getting detected as? Should i just uninstall the Primary IDE channel from the device manager and get XP to correct it on next boot up? Edit Sorted it now with some BIOS setting trickery. Thanks Last edited by Livingston Dell; 10-04-2003 at 02:07 PM.