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Dud3! · Rated XXX

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!
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Due to a not-that-interesting turn of events, I am now known as Justin Danger.