Problem with>WD1200JB

[atlas]

Hi all
I have this problem I got a new hard drive WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3-(120.03 GB) to replace my WDC WD200BB-(20.02 GB) all went well with partitioning and formatting and moving all the data from the 20 to the 120 now hears the problem the drive seemed slower then my C-drive so I slipped in the western digital utility floppy and ran the ATA Manager program and found that the drive is set for 33 and the utility states that the drive is not ATA-100 compatible now hears my question when I partitioned and formatted the drive I did it in a older comp, that is only 33-bus is it possible that this is why the drive has set its self for that speed and wont let me change it and should I repartition and format it in this comp, my C-drive WDC WD300BB-32AUA1-(30.02 GB) Dose show its running at ATA-100 and is capable of 33-66-100 it was portioned and formatted on this computer.


Syst-Spec’s
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1
AMD Athlon XP 1800+ running>1539-megahertz
CPU Cooler>Alpha PAL8045
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 7VKML 1.0
Memory-DDR-PC-2100-512-Megabytes Installed
Maxtor Promise Ultra ATA/100 PCI Adapter Card
[Hard drive] (30.02 GB) WDC WD300BB-32AUA1
[Hard drive] (120.03 GB) WDC WD1200JB-00DUA3
AXV CD/DVD-ROM SCSI CdRom Device
MSI DVD-ROM 16XMax SCSI CdRom Device
BTC DVDRW IDE1008 SCSI CdRom Device
Display adapter> NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 440 TV-out
Monitor>15.2"vis,CTX 1785
Scanner>Primax-Colorado-600p
Lexmark Z600 Series

[Alakazam]

Have you checked in your XP Device Manager to be sure that DMA is turned on Atlas? Device Manager/IDE ATA Controllers/ right click and select properties for each one and go to the advanced tab where you should be able to make changes.

[Dramen]

doesn't matter that it was formatted in older comp, because the bios in your new comp detects the drive and sets it's parameters.

do what zammy said and see if xp is setting the dma properly.

let winxp re-format the drive.

[atlas]

Hi
i have checked in the Device Manager in pri-&-sec ide channel properties and it shows device 0>current transfer mode: ultra DMA mode 5 then device 1>current mode: not applicable
both devices type>auto detecttion and transfer mode> DMA if available.

[Dramen]

device 1 is the new hd right?

you have the bios set to auto detect right?

hows the bios list the device when you first boot up?

btw, don't know how old the prev pc was but if it had problems with bios limitations of hd then it could be possible the wd utility you first used in that pc slapped an overlay diskmanager to compensate. so if thats the case you need to use the latest utility and wipe out any disk manager installed on the hd.

doubt that tho, pc would have had to be an oldy.

[atlas]

Yes device 1 is the new one. after i put the new drive in i went into the bios and performed the auto detect then had the bios set it for manual with the settings it came up with. but that may be a good idea to set it for auto?? but i have found in the passed that haveing drives auto detected during boot takes longer to load to the OS. when i partitioned & formated i did not need the WD-Overlay i just used a 98se-start-up disk and did fdisk then format C: all that went well with no hang up's

[Dramen]

yeah, i agree about auto slowing up boot up, but give it a try just to see how xp looks at the new drive.

[atlas]

Update
Ok i tryed the auto detect during boot and that made no differance so i installed the latest VIA-drivers and that worked went into wd-utilitys and was able to change ATA-settings

[Alakazam]

Glad you got it all sorted atlas, and thanks for sharing the outcome, one can never have too much info at hand.

[tim]

You need to make sure you are using an 80-wire IDE cable to get transfer speeds above ATA/33 (UDMA 2).
An older 40-wire cable will force the IDE controller to use ATA/33 (UDMA 2).

The VIA IDE driver will not always tell the truth. It will say that you WANT UDMA 5 but will dynamically adjust the speed downwards to account for the conditions.

[Dramen]

good tip tim, i completely forgot about that possibility.