From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GqBmQ-0001oD-Ke for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Dec 2006 17:02:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kB1H0Awn019342; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 17:00:10 GMT Received: from sccrmhc15.comcast.net (sccrmhc15.comcast.net [63.240.77.85]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kB1GvqHV011331 for ; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:57:52 GMT Received: from [68.61.57.176] (c-68-61-57-176.hsd1.mi.comcast.net[68.61.57.176]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc15) with ESMTP id <2006120116575101500b549qe>; Fri, 1 Dec 2006 16:57:51 +0000 Message-ID: <45705F0F.20705@comcast.net> Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:57:51 -0500 From: Chris Walters User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] SATA II Hard Drive problems - revisited... (Solved) References: <456DACA9.3000602@comcast.net> <456DFF79.1050202@comcast.net> <200611292253.36303.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200611292253.36303.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: adffd0cd-2dee-4b6c-9485-54663362416b X-Archives-Hash: 69d9a0f08eb05b02498ec1f1fba63211 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iD8DBQFFcF8MUx1jS/ORyCsRCKfQAJ9P5THSEqSdy/8YV23y+e4uA08kdACfYeE0 hDSP3qG9LR85X41nSPPWejU= =Uzsk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list