HD 'Stuck' in PIO mode

[Atuin]

Hello,
I recently installed a new Maxtor 80GB drive (IDE, 7200RPM, 8mb cache). I found that frames were being dropped when doing video capture. I did no thave this problem with the drive I replaced (IBM Deskstar, 20GB). I checked and found that the drive was in PIO mode, not 'Ultra DMA' like the other hard drive on the primary IDE channel. (Western digital, 30GB, 5400RPM). I tried several solutions but I am still stuck in PIO mode.
Any ideas/suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
David

 

[BuckeyeComputers]

not sure where to start here, first are you using a 80 wire ribbon cable? have you check the settings in the bios for the controller that this drive is on?.. have you went to device manager/i believe its ide controllers and made sure that dma mode is check on the drive that is connected?... have you updated your MB IDE controllers to the newest version that might be needed to accomandate a drive of this size?

just a few things to check

 

[Stretch001]

I have the same problem. Microsoft say that it is due to XP seeing CRC errors and slowing the drive to try to increase reliability (less corruption of data).
They say that if you uninstall the device (IDE channel) and reboot Windows XP may reinstall the driver as Ultra DMA 5.
Personally I think there may be a proble with Maxtor drives as I've had the same model drive crash completely.

 

[eli3k]

Stretch001 is right. Just uninstall the Primary IDE Channel from Device Manager and Windows will reinstall it. I've done it in WinXP.