SATA stuck in PIO : ms-7025

Hi there ...
ms-7025, newest BIOS, no raid, only 1 sata drive. DMA enabled for the drive in the BIOS.
The SATA drive is not the boot drive.
There are 3 PATA drives and 1 PATA DVD-RW installed.
The SATA drive is an extended NTFS partition. It's a 500GB Seagate drive.
Problems:
1) It takes 5 minutes to boot when the sata drive is enabled.
2) It's stuck in PIO mode no matter what I do.
See image:
http://sightsea.com/renders/pio.jpg I've tried 3 different data cables. No change.
3) It shows the same way as a thumb drive does over in the tray "Safely Remove Hardware..."
Any ideas are welcome.
Thank you!
Steve

Quote from: Bas on 19-March-09, 03:21:29
Did you put a fresh Windows on the machine?
Quote from: Bas on 19-March-09, 03:21:29
Did you put a fresh Windows on the machine?
Considering that it's acting the same way on 2 different msi machines and 1 machine is a triple boot of XP,
and all 4 of those OS installs have never had any problems, and that the drive runs perfectly on my friends old Abit ...
... no ... it's not worth reinstalling XP to me. I'm convinced it's an incompatibility issue of some kind or an msi drivers issue.
The machine that is the triple boot, all 3 Windows installs on that machine are very fresh ... probably only 2 months old
and are very clean and have no other issues, so testing it on 3 windows installs on the same machine is enough for me.

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Hello,
Short version: Can't seem to get out of PIO mode.
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Right-click the controller that you want to configure DMA/PIO settings for, and then click Properties.
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Quote from: nickursis on 03-March-07, 20:13:12
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TNT1, if you have a website for that SCSI drive I will give it a shot. If not don't bother looking for it again.
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Quote from: rculpan
((a) First "gotcha" might well be down to a bug in Windows XP setup - for example not being able to handle more than 2 active IDE controllers; installing the JMicron driver by F6 hid that IDE controller by turning it into "SCSI". BTW, my boot drive is already on SATA4.
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Quote from: rculpan
(c) FYI the four hard drives are because the system will be used for video editing with a lot of 2-camera work
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Quote from: BOSSKILLER on 02-August-07, 08:49:56
read Moan Guide and provide full system spec.
Okay!
# CPU brand, model and speed (eg AMD Athlon64 3000+ 'Venice' core)
Intel Celeron 2600MHz
# Motherboard model (eg K7N2 Delta2 Platinum, NOT just MS-6570!!)
MSI 7008 (PT880 Neo LSR)
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One stick of Corsair 1024MB PC-3200 DDR-RAM.
# Video card brand, chipset type, memory size (eg Gainward Geforce 6800GS 512mb AGP)
Unknown brand of the GeForce FX5200 128MB AGP.
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200 GB Seagate 200GB PATA-100 as Primary Master.
400 GB Samsung 400GB SATA-150.
NEC DVD/RW burner as Secondary Master and LiteOn CD/RW burner as Secondary Slave, tried without the secondary cable connected.
# Any other peripheral cards and devices (eg MSI TV@nywhere Plus TV card, MSI DigiVOX USB2 TV tuner)
FireWire card without devices connected. Floppy disk diskette. Some extra network card.
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Windows XP SP2 Pro.
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Did that.
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4) What are you connecting from that IDE controller that only detects PIO mode?
:hypecrite:

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i686 Arch
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sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 2 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
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sx8(0000:03:02.0): port 3 device "Maxtor 7V300F0"
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sx8/1: p1
sx8/2: p1
sx8/3:
sx8/4:
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sx8/5: p1
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raid5: device sx8/2p1 operational as raid disk 2
raid5: device sx8/1p1 operational as raid disk 1
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disk 1, o:1, dev:sx8/1p1
disk 2, o:1, dev:sx8/2p1
disk 3, o:1, dev:sx8/3p1
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disk 2, o:1, dev:sx8/2p1
disk 3, o:1, dev:sx8/3p1
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Preferred Minor : 0
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Failed Devices : 0
Spare Devices : 1
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UUID : 477c93de:1846baae:2a477155:25972514
Events : 0.1
Number Major Minor RaidDevice State
0 160 1 0 active sync /dev/sx8/0p1
1 160 33 1 active sync /dev/sx8/1p1
2 160 65 2 active sync /dev/sx8/2p1
3 160 97 3 active sync /dev/sx8/3p1
4 160 129 4 active sync /dev/sx8/4p1
6 160 161 5 spare rebuilding /dev/sx8/5p1
cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md0 : active raid5 sx8/5p1[6] sx8/4p1[4] sx8/3p1[3] sx8/2p1[2] sx8/1p1[1] sx8/0p1[0]
1465248000 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [6/5] [UUUUU_]
[>....................] recovery = 0.0% (868/293049600) finish=597464.5min speed=3K/sec
unused devices: <none>
Last edited by judfilm (2007-02-15 12:51:47)

Great work vango44!
Here are some RAID performance statistics I gathered while testing RAID on my system. The testing software was Winbench 99. The hard drives tested were new Seagate ST380013AS drives, formatted NTFS. Winbench was running on a third drive that is not included in the tests and should not affect the results.
The drives were reformatted between tests and chkdsk'ed to try and keep things "apples to apples".
No hardware or software changes other than the RAID setup/connections were made between tests.
Higher numbers mean better performance.
I also ran the same tests on the newish WD Raptor 10K drives:
I couldn't stand all the noise the Raptors made, so I returned them.
On my motherboard:
SATA 1 & 2 = Intel RAID controller
SATA 3 & 4 = Promise RAID controller
If the test title does not include "RAID", then it was a single drive test.
Unfortunately, I don't have a spreadsheet version of the above stats. Otherwise I'd create nice bar charts for us and it's would be easier to deduce performance.
Perhaps some kind reader will OCR the pictures, put them into Excel, and make some nice bar charts for us?
Hope the info helps.

SATA stuck in PIO : ms-7025

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