Go to control panel, system, device manager,ide ata/atapi controllers, secondary control channel, secondary control channel properties, advanced settings. See if transfer mode selected is PIO only(which I suspect it is) or DMA if available. If PIO only is selected, change to DMA if available.
It's fixed.
I tried what you suggested several times earlier (actually, the slave HD is not on the secondary channel, it's the second device on the primary IDE channel). Anyway, it did say DMA if available, but the mode was always the slow mode 2. I found out from the Western Digital forum that for Dell computers, it is necessary to go to setup (F2 before Windows starts) and select drive configuration, then go to Primary Slave Drive. In my case, it was set to OFF. My only option was to change it to "DRIVE MISSING" (or something equally non-sensible - I forget exactly). When I then booted up Windows, I checked the properties of the primary IDE channel, and I was please to see that both device 0 (the master or boot drive) as well as device 1 (the new slave drive) were both indicating Ultra DMA Mode 5. The video playback works great. After restarting and checking setup, Primary Slave Drive is indicating HARD DRIVE (rather than DRIVE MISSING)
MrTejas
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January 8th, 2005 17:00
AOEnergizer
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January 9th, 2005 00:00
I tried what you suggested several times earlier (actually, the slave HD is not on the secondary channel, it's the second device on the primary IDE channel). Anyway, it did say DMA if available, but the mode was always the slow mode 2. I found out from the Western Digital forum that for Dell computers, it is necessary to go to setup (F2 before Windows starts) and select drive configuration, then go to Primary Slave Drive. In my case, it was set to OFF. My only option was to change it to "DRIVE MISSING" (or something equally non-sensible - I forget exactly). When I then booted up Windows, I checked the properties of the primary IDE channel, and I was please to see that both device 0 (the master or boot drive) as well as device 1 (the new slave drive) were both indicating Ultra DMA Mode 5. The video playback works great. After restarting and checking setup, Primary Slave Drive is indicating HARD DRIVE (rather than DRIVE MISSING)