FYI: Restoring DMA access on an "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller"

[Guest witan]

The main harddrive on my computer (running Windows-XP Pro, now SP3)

had slipped to PIO mode. Microsoft support information at

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472 ("IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use

PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur") did not give me

much joy. A google search took me to http://winhlp.com/node/10 and

then on to the vbscript, http://winhlp.com/tools/resetdma.vbs.

I ran the vbscript -- with a little trepidation, but my hard disk,

Seagate ATA 160GB, was already agonizingly slow. On reboot I found

that Ultra DMA Mode 5 has been restored, and my disk is shutting down,

rebooting, hibernating, resuming, etc. at near normal speed.

 

I thought the info would be of use to others.

[Guest pwagner68]

RE: FYI: Restoring DMA access on an "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller"

 

 

 

"witan" wrote:

> The main harddrive on my computer (running Windows-XP Pro, now SP3)

> had slipped to PIO mode. Microsoft support information at

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472 ("IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use

> PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur") did not give me

> much joy. A google search took me to http://winhlp.com/node/10 and

> then on to the vbscript, http://winhlp.com/tools/resetdma.vbs.

> I ran the vbscript -- with a little trepidation, but my hard disk,

> Seagate ATA 160GB, was already agonizingly slow. On reboot I found

> that Ultra DMA Mode 5 has been restored, and my disk is shutting down,

> rebooting, hibernating, resuming, etc. at near normal speed.

>

> I thought the info would be of use to others.

>

[Guest pwagner68]

RE: FYI: Restoring DMA access on an "IDE ATA/ATAPI controller"

 

How do you use the information that comes up when you click on the winhlp link?

 

"witan" wrote:

> The main harddrive on my computer (running Windows-XP Pro, now SP3)

> had slipped to PIO mode. Microsoft support information at

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817472 ("IDE ATA and ATAPI disks use

> PIO mode after multiple time-out or CRC errors occur") did not give me

> much joy. A google search took me to http://winhlp.com/node/10 and

> then on to the vbscript, http://winhlp.com/tools/resetdma.vbs.

> I ran the vbscript -- with a little trepidation, but my hard disk,

> Seagate ATA 160GB, was already agonizingly slow. On reboot I found

> that Ultra DMA Mode 5 has been restored, and my disk is shutting down,

> rebooting, hibernating, resuming, etc. at near normal speed.

>

> I thought the info would be of use to others.

>