[gentoo-user] [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

[gentoo-user] [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

[Chris Walters]

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Hello Everyone,

I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation.  By using
"hdparm -I", rather than "hdparm -i", I was able to find out that my
hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo.

It is operating in PIO mode in windows, and I can't seem to find a
solution for this problem.  I have discovered that the problem is
somewhere in the registry, but I cannot find it.  I am thinking that I
am going to have to use the "rescue disc" to go back to factory
settings.  Or I suppose I could rid myself of the windows virus once and
for all...

Thanks to all who tried to help.

Regards,
Chris
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[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

[James]

Chris Walters <cjw2004d <at> comcast.net> writes:

> I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation.  By using
> "hdparm -I", rather than "hdparm -i", I was able to find out that my
> hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo.

> Thanks to all who tried to help.


Hello Chris,

This is a 'long shot' in the dark, cause I have not read anything about
your problem, but, do make sure you check for any 'pc bios' settings.
Linux is suppose to ignore bios settings and do it's own thing, but,
at least on video ram, I've had to adjust the factory defaults to get
max video ram on some systems. I think there are a few bugs floating
about with how the linux kernel and the default bios interact.


just a wag   (wild ass guess)


James





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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited...

[Chris Walters]

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James wrote:
> Chris Walters <cjw2004d <at> comcast.net> writes:
> 
>> I thought I'd give an update on my hard drive situation.  By using
>> "hdparm -I", rather than "hdparm -i", I was able to find out that my
>> hard drive is operating in UDMA6 mode in Gentoo.
> 
>> Thanks to all who tried to help.
> 
> Hello Chris,
> 
> This is a 'long shot' in the dark, cause I have not read anything about
> your problem, but, do make sure you check for any 'pc bios' settings.
> Linux is suppose to ignore bios settings and do it's own thing, but,
> at least on video ram, I've had to adjust the factory defaults to get
> max video ram on some systems. I think there are a few bugs floating
> about with how the linux kernel and the default bios interact.
> 
> 
> just a wag   (wild ass guess)
> 
> 
> James

Hello James,

Well, since this this thing is nearly brand new, and UDMA worked in
Windows until some time after I installed Gentoo (I don't think Gentoo
had anything to do with it), I doubted it was the BIOS - I checked
anyway.  Everything that should be enabled is set correctly.

I am certain that it is a Windows problem - probably from some software
I installed.  Anyway, thanks for the advice.

Regards,
Chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited... (Solved)

[Chris Walters]

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Mick wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:45, Chris Walters wrote:
> 
> Go to My Computer, right-click and select Properties from the drop down menu.  
> Then select the Hardware tab and click on the Device Manager (alternative get 
> to the same point from the Administrative Tools).
> 
> Click to expand "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" and then Right-click on "Primary 
> IDE channel".  Select Properties and then the tab Advanced Settings.  Set the 
> options from the drop down menus on this tab as follows:
> 
> Device 0
>  Device type: Auto Detection
>  Transfer Mode: DMA if available
>  Current Transfer Mode: Ultra DMA Mode 5  <-- this should be selected 
> automatically without you having to type it in, but you may have to aheam! 
> reboot.  :)
> 
> Device 1
>  (Ditto if you have a second device).
> 
> Click OK to accept the settings and then go Disk Drives in the Device Manager.  
> Right-click, select Properties and then the tab that says Policies.  
> Tick "Optimise for performance" and also tick "Enable write caching on the 
> disk".  If this had not been switched on already, then you will see a 
> significant performance difference after selecting it.  Erm, finally, did I 
> say that you may need to reboot . . . :))
> 
> HTH.

Hello Mick,

Thanks for the advice.  Unfortunately, I have already tried this and it
did not work.  So, I ended up having to do a complete factory restore.
Now it works in UMDA 6.  This, of course, was not my first choice, but
it seemed to be my only choice, given what I had tried.

Regards,
Chris
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited... (Solved)

[Mick]

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On Friday 01 December 2006 16:57, Chris Walters wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:45, Chris Walters wrote:
> >
> > Go to My Computer, right-click and select Properties from the drop down
> > menu. Then select the Hardware tab and click on the Device Manager
> > (alternative get to the same point from the Administrative Tools).
[snip ...]
> > HTH.
>
> Hello Mick,
>
> Thanks for the advice.  Unfortunately, I have already tried this and it
> did not work.  So, I ended up having to do a complete factory restore.
> Now it works in UMDA 6.  This, of course, was not my first choice, but
> it seemed to be my only choice, given what I had tried.

I'm sorry it didn't work out for you.  Re-installing windows is not something 
I look forward to, merely because of the time I need to spend to close all 
the ports and services that are open by default.  That's why I now have 
images of configured installations so that I can be up and running within 40 
minutes when the OS gets corrupted.  Mind you all the subsequent Windows 
Updates still take ages.

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Mick

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