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Ron Yuen
I have two hard drives sharing my primary IDE channel on my
motherboard. In the advanced properties of the channel I observed
the current transfer mode of my Device 1 to be "PIO Mode" while the
current transfer mode of my Device 0 is "Ultra DMA mode 2". My PC is
apparently running slower due to the slower transfer rate on one of
my drives. I suspect a failing hard drive after reading a post here
a week ago but want to know: Is there a way that I can identify
which physical drive is having issues without having to unplug one of
the drives? Is Device 0 my boot drive or primary drive? Would
having one drive with issues on the same IDE channel as the other
"good" one cause the good one to also have to transfer data at the
degraded rate?
Thanks for your time!
-Ron
motherboard. In the advanced properties of the channel I observed
the current transfer mode of my Device 1 to be "PIO Mode" while the
current transfer mode of my Device 0 is "Ultra DMA mode 2". My PC is
apparently running slower due to the slower transfer rate on one of
my drives. I suspect a failing hard drive after reading a post here
a week ago but want to know: Is there a way that I can identify
which physical drive is having issues without having to unplug one of
the drives? Is Device 0 my boot drive or primary drive? Would
having one drive with issues on the same IDE channel as the other
"good" one cause the good one to also have to transfer data at the
degraded rate?
Thanks for your time!
-Ron