Problem Detecting Hard Drive at Correct UDMA

[Laztlain]

Hi all,

I am running out of ideas here!

The HDD detects in BIOS just fine, but it detets it at ATA33 right from the BIOS - I was able to tell this when booting from the WinXP CD for installation.

I tried 2 different 80 wire cables, both gave the same result.

Here are some system specs:

HDD - WD Caviar SE 80GB - On Primary Channel Alone
CDRW and CD Drives - Both on Secondary Channel
BIOS - (3214.bin) Most recent I believe
CPU - Athlon xp 2400 Moblie
OS - WinXP Pro SP2
Video - ATI Radeon 9800 SE
Mobo - Epox 8k7a

Here are all of the different drivers I tried:

Via 4in1 version 4.56
Via 4in1 version 4.43
Via 4in1 version 4.37
IDE Miniport 3.014
Windows XP drivers
Attempted HDD jumper as "Master" and as "Cable Select"

Each and every setting/driver gives me ATA33. Would you think this tends to indicate the BIOS as the culprit? My BIOS settings are:

Primary Master PIO Mode - Auto
Primary Master UDMA Mode - Auto

Any help is APPRECIATED!!

 

[bowserjs]

I have seen in the past on WD that you can set it to be a udma33, i had to do it one, if i remember correclty i had to use some of WD software to do it. I would look to see if there is WDDiag software that will allow you to check that setting.

Doesnt really sound like the case, i had to do it for compatiblity on a VERY old computer, but worth a shot anyway.

You could also try a bios update, what motherboard do you have?

oops just saw the mb type

 

[Laztlain]

Thanks for the reply. My HDD came with software - I will take a look at that tonight. Anything is worth a shot at this point!!

 

[jackschmittusa]

My guess is a bios setting.