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Speed up second HDD?

post #1 of 19
12/3/06 at 5:13pm
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I have a second hard drive in the caddy you get from qj.xu (thank you very much). I get a lot of skipping/crackling when playing stuff off of it... is there any way to speed it up? A registry hack maybe? I must be missing something.
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post #2 of 19
12/3/06 at 6:36pm
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Originally Posted by fowler
I have a second hard drive in the caddy you get from qj.xu (thank you very much). I get a lot of skipping/crackling when playing stuff off of it... is there any way to speed it up? A registry hack maybe? I must be missing something.
It may just need a defrag. I have no problems from mine.
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post #3 of 19
12/3/06 at 6:42pm
Right click My Computer > Manage > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > Secondary IDE Channel > Advanced Settings

Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: Should read DMA Mode of your hard drive
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post #4 of 19
12/4/06 at 12:39am
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Originally Posted by WackyT
Right click My Computer > Manage > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers > Secondary IDE Channel > Advanced Settings

Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: Should read DMA Mode of your hard drive

Current Transfer Mode: PIO Mode

I can't change it... what is pio?
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post #5 of 19
12/4/06 at 12:55am
PIO mode is basically your CPU is doing something (i forget the exact details), instead of the controller on the actual drive, so basically, it is slower and slows down your system. i have a program somewhere that changes a registry key so it goes back to DMA mode... i'd have to go find it though.
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post #6 of 19
12/4/06 at 1:22am
Start > Run... > regedit

Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} key in the left pane

Find the subkey for the secondary IDE channel

Delete the values for MasterIdDataChecksum and SlaveIdDataChecksum in the right pane

Reboot
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post #7 of 19
12/4/06 at 2:36am
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Originally Posted by WackyT
Start > Run... > regedit

Find the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SYSTEM\\CurrentControlSet\\Control\\Class\\{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} key in the left pane

Find the subkey for the secondary IDE channel

Delete the values for MasterIdDataChecksum and SlaveIdDataChecksum in the right pane

Reboot

I deleted the MasterIdDataCheckSum value. There wasn't a SlaveIdDataCheckSum value available to delete. I double checked to make sure I was in the secondary ide channel and I was. I rebooted and it didn't work, and the MasterIdDataChecksum value returned. Any thoughts?
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post #8 of 19
12/4/06 at 11:26am
And you still can't change the Transfer Mode: setting to DMA if available from post #3?
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post #9 of 19
12/4/06 at 2:08pm
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Originally Posted by WackyT
And you still can't change the Transfer Mode: setting to DMA if available from post #3?

Correct.
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post #10 of 19
12/4/06 at 2:16pm
Don't know what to tell you then. That should've reset the controller to allow DMA mode.
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post #11 of 19
12/4/06 at 2:43pm
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I'll try it again later when I get home... I may have missed something.
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post #12 of 19
12/4/06 at 4:56pm
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Can someone do me a quick favor since I don't have my lappy in front of me... can somebody look at the bios and see what the settings are for hard drive channels... specifically can you set it to automatically detect the best settings or disable that... and what the default is.
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post #13 of 19
12/5/06 at 10:55am
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Ok... so there is no option in my bios to enable secondary DMA... I got rid of the registry value and rebooted.. still in pio. I uninstalled the secondary drive in device manager, rebooted and it was in udma, but had to reboot again and it went back to pio. I tried the reset dma patch but that screwed up some things and now my computer boots up ssslllooowwwllly when the drive is in and doesn't show up until I switch it back to pio mode, in which case i can see the drive but can't access it... awesome. So I import my previously backed up registry and it still has issues. I turned off acoustic management and had the drive powered up all the time... same... I had the drive back to default power... same. I removed the drive from secondary and put it back to primary and reinstalled xp on it... it's working fat dumb and happy in udma. I put it back to secondary and reinstalled windows on the other primary (original config)... it is udma for a short period and goes back to pio. 3 hours of my life wasted.

Anyone else have similar experiences? I wonder if vista or linux would work better.
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post #14 of 19
12/5/06 at 11:23am
See if this article helps out any.
http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm
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post #15 of 19
12/5/06 at 11:46am
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Thanks, though I already read through that and tried a lot of the suggestions... that's where I got the resetdma.vbs file from which screwed things more than help.

Also I put my cdrom back to to check and it is runs fine in udma.
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post #16 of 19
12/5/06 at 11:50am
So it's not the laptop hardware then. There's something screwy with the caddy that's causing CRC errors then. Have you taken a look at the connectors and wiring in the caddy to see if anything looks questionable?
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post #17 of 19
12/5/06 at 1:01pm
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Ya...wiring on the pcb looks fine... and I tried the second caddy as well with the same result
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post #18 of 19
12/5/06 at 2:23pm
such problem i never met .

if you set automatic for ide in bios, it shoud on DMA automatic in xp............

you cdrom can work on DMA , so you notebook hardware should normally.

what kind of you 2th hdd disk ?

i send you two caddies. do you test another?
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post #19 of 19
12/5/06 at 3:03pm
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ya i tested both caddies...
there is no options to change the auto detect settings in my bios.
The hard drive I am using with it is a hitachi travelstar 60GB 7200
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