Maxtor Drive Refusing to Use DMA in XP

[BlackLoti]

I have a Maxtor 91080D5 10GB drive. Maxtor's site states that it is UDMA33 compliant, however windows XP refuses to report it as such.

Bootup reports the following:

-Abit BH6 r1.01 Motherboard-

Primary Master: Maxtor 91080D5, CHS, UDMA33, 10801MB
Primary Slave: Maxtor 91021U2, LBA, UDMA33, 10246MB

Obviously it is reporting that UDMA33 is supported on both drives.

Windows XP states the following:

Primary IDE
Device Type: Auto Detection
Transfer mode: DMA if Available
Current Transfer mode: PIO

Secondary IDE
Device Type: Auto Detection
Transfer mode: DMA if Available
Current Transfer mode: Ultra DMA Mode 2

The motherboard's BIOS has IDE Transfer setttings set to AUTO, which is why UDMA33 is detected upon posting.

Also, the Event Viewer reports the following upon a bootup:

Error:
Event: 11
Type: atapi
Description: The driver detected a controller error on \Device\Ide\IdePort0.

Error:
Event: 9
Type: atapi
Description: The device, \Device\Ide\IdePort0, did not respond within the timeout period.

Any idea what these mean? The winXP help says "nothing is available on this topic".

what I don't understand is why WindowsXP refuses to report that it is working at UDMA33 speeds. Why would this be? Is it really working at UDMA33 and just misreporting or is the drive incompatible with windowsXP somehow? Is there a way i can test transfer speeds to find out what setting i truly am running at?

Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

[BlackLoti]

Bump. Bump.

 

[olds]

Don't know but try this.

 

[BlackLoti]

Hey! I've been trying to find an Event ID description for a LONG time. Thanks for the link. I'm still researching this. The descriptions, both by event ID and Microsoft both read so technicallly heh.

 

[jfunk]

Sure your jumpers are right?

What kind of mobo / chipset do you have? Tried the latest drivers? (or tried NOT using the latest and going back to built-ins if it's via?)


j

 

[BlackLoti]

Abit BH6 motherboard r1.01
Intel 440BX Chipset

No drivers for it since it's a few years old.

 

[olds]

Enable your PM's, I have a link for you.

 

[BlackLoti]

PM's should be on by default. That's annoying.

They should be on now. thanks.

 

[mckennma]

Did you install the IDE chipset drivers for XP? These enable UMDA and DMA settings. You will also have to check your IDE controllers to see how they are setup.

 

[BlackLoti]

installing the chipset drivers for XP is unnecessary. It errors saying "This chipset has INF drivers built into windows XP" or something similar. Nothing gets installed.

As for IDE controllers, it's odde. I get Event ID errors 9 and 11 upon bootup. The 2nd 10gb drive runs in Ultra DMA mode 2 on Primary Slave.

The eventID site didnt' have anything pertinent to what i'm getting though.