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Gswiss · 06-20-2008, 11:24 AM

Yes, all WD drives are Caviars of the same generation bought less than 2 years ago.

The issue was solved a bit by chance. We went into the BIOS to see whether DMA could not be forced from there. As it turned out, we could not since we were faced with a Department Store Tower, nevertheless with a Gigabyte MB and AMI BIOS, going back to 5 or 6 years ago (Pentium 4, 1.7 Ghz).

It's at that point, in the BIOS, that we noticed that the two disks were set to User-defined. When we changed this to Auto, the problem was solved and everything was back to normal as it was before we ran into the defective connector issue which started all.

Thnaks to all for the suggestions which put us on the right track.

06-20-2008, 11:24 AM	#10 (permalink)
Gswiss Registered User Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 131 OS: W98SE + W2k + XP	Re: DMA replaced by PIO Yes, all WD drives are Caviars of the same generation bought less than 2 years ago. The issue was solved a bit by chance. We went into the BIOS to see whether DMA could not be forced from there. As it turned out, we could not since we were faced with a Department Store Tower, nevertheless with a Gigabyte MB and AMI BIOS, going back to 5 or 6 years ago (Pentium 4, 1.7 Ghz). It's at that point, in the BIOS, that we noticed that the two disks were set to User-defined. When we changed this to Auto, the problem was solved and everything was back to normal as it was before we ran into the defective connector issue which started all. Thnaks to all for the suggestions which put us on the right track. Last edited by Gswiss; 06-20-2008 at 11:39 AM.