Primary IDE stuck in PIO mode

[crazy_vag]

I have an intel PERL 865 motherboard. I have 3 devices.

1) SATA WD HD
2) IDE IBM 60gig HD
3) Lito-On DVD/CD-RW

#1 is on the primary SATA port.
#2 is a Master on the Primary IDE port
#3 is a Master on the Secondary IDE port.

Here's the problem. THe IDE hard drive is stuck in PIO mode. When I went to BIOS, under "Drives", that hard drive is not detected. It only shows up in windows in PIO mode. I swapped the DVD/CD-RW with the hard drive -> so now the DVD is on Primary IDE while the IBM hard drive is on Secondary. With that swap, the hard drive gets detected fine, and DVD is missing in bios.

What gives? I'm at a loss as to what else to try other than to get a SATA optical drive. I also considered running both HD and DVD off the same ide cable, but I'd have to rearrange the devices so that the cable will reach.

-martin

 

[bacillus]

hmm, if your board is like my asus one, when you set your bios to compatible mode you loose a ide channel if you use sata. if using xp try using enhanced mode is you're not presently doing so.

 

[Zepper]

In Device Manager (whatever XP equivalent is), remove that channel of your controller, reboot and let Win redetect it then reinstall any chipset IDE drivers.
.bh.

 

[xgi]

Try to update to BIOS see if it helps... sometimes it's the BIOS's fault..
You can also try to contact your motherboard manufacturer (intel) to get some answers...

 

[sao123]

put hdd on secondary master and cdrom secondary slave.

 

[kuk]

This happens when Windows falls back to PIO mode due to I/O error happening too many times. Do things in this order:
1) What Zepper said
2) Change SATA cables
3) What sao123 said
4) What bacillus said
5) What xgi said

 

[crazy_vag]

Originally posted by: kuk
This happens when Windows falls back to PIO mode due to I/O error happening too many times. Do things in this order:
1) What Zepper said
2) Change SATA cables
3) What sao123 said
4) What bacillus said
5) What xgi said

#1 and two reboots seems to have fixed it. Thanks guys.