Xorro;244982 Wrote: > I have recently installed a new disk, on IDE. I was previously streaming > from my main HDD on SATA. There is nothing on the new disk other than > music, I have turned off all disk scanning and indexing to ensure that > disk reads are being performed unnecessarily. ... I am running Windows > Vista Home Premium It would be worth checking that the IDE disk is not running in PIO mode. Don't know exactly how you'd check this on Vista, but I suspect it will be similar to XP. Obviously there might be some differences in Vista, but the small experience I've had with it suggests to me that under the covers Vista is the same core as XP, and most of the administrative dialogs I've seen are basically the same. So:
Bring up Device Manager, expand out the IDE/ATAPI controllers, and look at the properties of the appropriate controller (primary or secondary). On the Advanced Settings tab, make sure the transfer mode is set to "DMA if available" and the current transfer mode is some form of DMA rather than PIO. If you find you cannot get the disk out of PIO mode, try uninstalling the relevant controller driver and rebooting. This should reinstall the driver and reset it to DMA capability. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40536 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
