Guest witan Posted June 11, 2008 Posted June 11, 2008 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 Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 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 Posted June 26, 2008 Posted June 26, 2008 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. >
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