Please help with LS120!!

[ajiaboya]

here is my problem.

i have a seagate hd as the primary master and a ls120 as the slave. if i go under device manager of w2k, it tells me that my current tranfer mode for both is PIO Mode. if i unplug the ls120, the hd is back as ultra dma. what am i doing wrong?? the secondary ide channel has my dvd and cdrw.

thanks,
junky2

 

[LiLithTecH]

1. Have you installed Service Pack 2 yet?

2. You would probably be better off with it on the Secondary IDE controller and
putting the DVD on the Primary.

Is the LS120 an ATA66 drive or and older ATA33?
If its an older drive, it would revert to ATA33 for both devices.

 

[ajiaboya]

lilithtech, answers to your questions.

1. yes
2. probably right. but that would change my cdrw from udma to pio.
3. ls120 is older ata33. why would it revert to the slower rate?

 

[LiLithTecH]

junky2 wrote:

3. ls120 is older ata33. why would it revert to the slower rate?

Compatibilty with the older Legacy Hardware.

 

[zepper00]

LS120 has never been ULTRA ATA or DMA anything it is PIO only. It should be hooked to its own channel as it will slow almost anything else down. If necessary, buy a PCI IDE card. You get two more IDE channels on only one more IRQ. You can then disable one of the on-board IDE channels and use its IRQ for the add-on, for a total of three channels (five drives assuming the LS-120 is on its own channel).
.bh.

 

[boomerang]

Also, most LS-120 drives are not happy unless they are set as master. The documentation that came with it may say otherwise, but in my experience master is the way to go.

 

[ajiaboya]

thanks everyone! i decided to take it out and put my old floppy drive back.

junky2