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

[Chris Walters <cjw2004d@comcast.net>]

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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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