ATA133 drive in 2000

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:48:27 Post Subject: ATA133 drive in 2000

Bill's done it again. First 2000 wouldn't support ATA100, now I find it doesn't support ATA133.

Here's the deal:

I have three hard drives and two optical drives.

Pri Master (main drive): Seagate Barracuda 7200.2
Pri Slave (backup drive): Seagate Barracuda ATA IV

Sec Master: LiteOn 52x24x52 CD-RW
Sec Slave: POSony 52X CD-ROM

Then I have a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 8 that was on a SIIG ATA 100 PCI IDE controller.

The main drive and the Maxtor are hooked up all the time, the backup drive is only hooked up when I make complete images of the main drive.

Seeing that I could get rid of the PCI controller, and thus speed up my 2000/RH9 boot time (plus getting rid of a cable), I reorganized.

Now the Maxtor is the master, the main Seagate is a slave, and the backup drive is a master above the Maxtor. When it's time for backups I just plug in the backup drive instead of the Maxtor.

Anyway, after I did this, everything worked great, except when I booted to Windows 2000 on the Maxtor. It was faster at the first since it was on the mobo, but when windows was finishing loading, it was SLOOOOOOW! PIO slow. I check in device manager and sure enough, "DMA if available" but running in PIO.

The ATA 100 Seagate was running in DMA though. And the Maxtor used to be in DMA mode because it was limited to ATA 100 by the PCI controller (that topped out at DMA Mode 5).

Since I own a IBM/Hitachi Desktar 60GXP, and knew that I could change the max DMA mode with the Feature Tool, I looked through Maxtor's site to find such a thing. No luck. I tried the Feature tool, but all it would let me do is disable acoustic management (which I did).

So I'm dead now. PIO isn't usable as you all know, and I have to find a way to either get this stupid OS to recognize DMA mode 6, or limit my Maxtor to DMA mode 5.

Please help if you can!

BeerCheeze · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:54:01 Post Subject:

Have you tried loading the newest chipset drivers? (Or at least reloading)

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:59:11 Post Subject:

I just checked the other day for new nVidia Unified drivers, nothing higher than the 2.45s I have.

I could try installing them over themselves I guess.

Charlie · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:45:11 Post Subject:

W2K does support UDMA6 but you need a controller card; I use a Promise TX2000 RAID controller on my backup rig with a pair of plain Jane Maxtor 30GB drives and they turn out about 80MB/s STR...Not too shabby for DiamondMax8 series drives.

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:51:48 Post Subject:

Umm, my mobo supports UDMA6, so how would getting a controller be any different?

dadx2mj · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:17:43 Post Subject:

You have an NForce 2 mobo right? I had the same problem in WinXP and it turns out that the Nvidia drivers suck. I un-installed them and used the native XP drivers and all my IDE problems went away. Not sure what the fix is for Win2K You might try the forums at AMDMB that is where I got the fix for my IDE problems

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:34:14 Post Subject:

I HAVE to have the nVidia drivers! No audio or ethernet without them!

Dr. Evilcheese said something about forcing it, and then disappeared (to do something evil no doubt).

Dud3! · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:35:26 Post Subject:

Plus the memory controller drivers! How are you even using your comp without the drivers? You must be crippled somehow.

dadx2mj · Posted: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:59:57 Post Subject:

I used the driver roll back feature in XP for the IDE controller. I dont think 2K has that feature but not sure. The IDE driver should be separate from the sound and other drivers. I think your problem is going to be that there are not native drivers in 2K for the Nforce 2

Charlie · Posted: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 05:05:06 Post Subject: