(new) Seagate 320GB 7200.10 DMA problems

[crice]

Hello, I recently purchased and built a completely new system (pasted from xfire):

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs)
2046MB RAM
ECS P965-T 1.0B
Seagate 320GB 7200.10 SATA
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

When I installed a fresh copy of winxp SP2, everything was fine. The drive showed up as ultra-dma mode 5. When I was transferring some old files over from an old IDE HD, I got an error stating, "Delayed Write Failed: Windows was unable to save all the data for the file D:/$MFT..." After that, my sata drive is now stuck in multi-word DMA mode 2.

So far, I've tried (to no avail):

- Various registry tricks, like deleting the Master/SlaveIDDataCheckSum keys
- Uninstalling the IDE device controller in Device manager.

I will try reinstalling winxp now. Otherwise, I'd like some help please 🙂

EDIT: Reinstalling winxp did not help. The drive is still in multi-word DMA mode.

EDIT2: I plugged the drive into another system, and it works FINE. The other system detects the drive as ULTRA DMA MODE 5, and is nice and fast. What the heck is wrong with my system!!

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Originally posted by: crice
Hello, I recently purchased and built a completely new system (pasted from xfire):

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz (2 CPUs)
2046MB RAM
ECS P965-T 1.0B
Seagate 320GB 7200.10 SATA
NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS

When I installed a fresh copy of winxp SP2, everything was fine. The drive showed up as ultra-dma mode 5. When I was transferring some old files over from an old IDE HD, I got an error stating, "Delayed Write Failed: Windows was unable to save all the data for the file D:/$MFT..." After that, my sata drive is now stuck in multi-word DMA mode 2.

So far, I've tried (to no avail):

- Various registry tricks, like deleting the Master/SlaveIDDataCheckSum keys
- Uninstalling the IDE device controller in Device manager.

I will try reinstalling winxp now. Otherwise, I'd like some help please 🙂

EDIT: Reinstalling winxp did not help. The drive is still in multi-word DMA mode.

EDIT2: I plugged the drive into another system, and it works FINE. The other system detects the drive as ULTRA DMA MODE 5, and is nice and fast. What the heck is wrong with my system!!

Possible compatibility issue with the ECS motherboard or even a defective motherboard. The tell-tale sign is the fact a complete XP reinstall did not work and the drive works at UDMA5 in another system....

Is it the only HDD in the system? Only SATA device?

 

[crice]

It's the only SATA device in the system. Actually, I think I solved my problem by plugging the drive into a different SATA port on the mobo. So, instead of SATA device 0 master, its on device 2 master. It seems to work fine now...