You have to look at the IDE channel listing under the IDE controller(s), not at the 
HDD's.  That's where the PIO/DMA settings are at, unless the chipset in your computer 
needs a utility installed from the motherboard/chipset manufacturer to enable the 
DMA modes correctly.  VIA and Intel were good at this (needing patches and such). 
 Depending on the failure of the drive, it can slow down both drives (or make both 
fail) when they are on the same channel.

Download the drive manufacturers diagnostics utility and check the drive.  See if 
that can pick up a problem.  Sometimes, but not always, they will.  Not all drive 
manufacturers have a utility but the major ones do.







On Saturday, January 19, 2008 at 7:10 pm, 2000_man wrote:

>Nothing of interest in the event viewer....and both HDD's are installed in the device 

>manager.  I don't think it matters anymore though since right before I posted this 

>I think tihe 80 gig failed again.....it refuses to boot into XP.  Like I said before 

>the only thing the 80 gig was for was to run games that wouldn't run on 2k....so 

>I'm not really upset.  I'm going to disconnect it and see if that'll fix the problem.
 

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