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Dave
The knowledge base has numerous articles about this, though I can't discern
a definitive answer. One article says that ATA-100 devices will revert to
ATA-66 w/out the appropriate fix, which seems to be in SP2. I'm using SP4,
yet I can't find the reg entry enabling the higher speed. (I found an
article on the web w/Win2k tips. One of them is to add the reg key "DWORD
value called EnableUDMA66". I looked for this value and it appears not to
be there.)
There's also mention of UDMA/100 drives being erroneously listed as running
in PIO mode, after a fix has been employed. Well, I can tell that when my
Primary Slave is listed as PIO, it's PIO, because it's very slow.
I may have 2 problems. The first is that (I think) my drives are not being
accessed in UDMA/100. The second thing is, Wndows will switch my slave into
PIO if I use power management on the HDDs. Evidently, the time it takes the
drive to spin up to speed is longer than the 4 sec timeout in W2k, before it
reports an error. The shorter I make the time before Windows shuts down the
HDDs the sooner it gets switched in PIO mode (though only the slave).
What's the deal? Is there a fix? Any help will be much appreciated,
because the info I've found is confusing.
a definitive answer. One article says that ATA-100 devices will revert to
ATA-66 w/out the appropriate fix, which seems to be in SP2. I'm using SP4,
yet I can't find the reg entry enabling the higher speed. (I found an
article on the web w/Win2k tips. One of them is to add the reg key "DWORD
value called EnableUDMA66". I looked for this value and it appears not to
be there.)
There's also mention of UDMA/100 drives being erroneously listed as running
in PIO mode, after a fix has been employed. Well, I can tell that when my
Primary Slave is listed as PIO, it's PIO, because it's very slow.
I may have 2 problems. The first is that (I think) my drives are not being
accessed in UDMA/100. The second thing is, Wndows will switch my slave into
PIO if I use power management on the HDDs. Evidently, the time it takes the
drive to spin up to speed is longer than the 4 sec timeout in W2k, before it
reports an error. The shorter I make the time before Windows shuts down the
HDDs the sooner it gets switched in PIO mode (though only the slave).
What's the deal? Is there a fix? Any help will be much appreciated,
because the info I've found is confusing.