Laptop hd set as PIO Mode?

[IceDigger]

The laptop in my sig was running a little slow in hd reading/writing so I took a look at the primary ide channel settings and apparently it is running in PIO mode yet the transfer mode is set to "DMA if Available". I have the latest via hyperion drivers.

Any ideas on how to get this back to dma mode?

 

[st4rk]

was it ever in dma before?

chances are that hd is pio only, laptops hd's tend to be cheap and slow. unless it's set to pio only in the bios

 

[IceDigger]

It's a new athlon 64 laptop with a 5400rpm 16mb cache hd.

 

[st4rk]

again, check your bios.

afaik they don't make 16mb cache hd's, and i have yet to see a laptop with an hd that has even an 8mb cache.

 

[IceDigger]

There are no options for the hard drive in the bios.

Here is a link proving that it is a 5400 rpm 16mb cache laptop hard drive.

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article157-page1.html

Apparently you have been living in the dark ages since they have been out for a couple years, lol.

 

[Kelvie]

Hope this helps:
http://sniptools.com/vault/getting-back-to-dma-mode-in-windows-xp.htm