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| Thread ID: 47636 | 2004-08-01 09:13:00 | PCI IDE Card File Transfer Woes | phil.b (4456) | Press F1 |
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| 257207 | 2004-08-01 09:13:00 | I have a PCI IDE card with a 160g drive connected. I have a 40g drive with XP Pro SP1 installed. If i transfer a file that takes longer than about 5 seconds the system locks up requiring a press of the reset button. The drivers are installed, the 160g is partitioned with 130g NTFS & 30 FAT32, there are no conflicts. I have a TRIOS 2 hard drive selector between the mb primary IDE channel & the winxp drive. I have Mandrake 10 on another drive hence the FAT32 partition. I don't think the TRIOS is the problem as it's transparent to the BIOS. Any other ideas ? I don't want to dual boot again. I had a major with my 1st dips into Linux & lost the lot. Phil |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 257208 | 2004-08-01 09:17:00 | Can you try it without the PCI card? Do you have any channels on your motherboard spare? | Growly (6) | ||
| 257209 | 2004-08-01 09:24:00 | The primary channel is connected to the TRIOS, the secondary has a CD Rom & DVD writer. That's the only way I could think of getting a slave drive for uptp 3 master hard drives Phil |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 257210 | 2004-08-01 09:40:00 | There is a remote possibility that this is a cable issue - try plugging the OS hard drive straight into the motherboard... shouldn't be more than cable reshufling. Give that a try. |
Growly (6) | ||
| 257211 | 2004-08-01 10:42:00 | I took the opportunity to replace all the ribbon cables with rounded. Still didn't help. It takes it 5 seconds to lock up copying to the slave, but locks instantly copying from it. I tried swapping the drive with a Cd rom & put it in the secondary IDE channel. The system refused to boot then, even with BIOS settings changed. |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 257212 | 2004-08-01 10:56:00 | I would firstly test the hard drive with the manufacturer's testing program. If that passes, I would then look at testing the ram. Lo. |
Lohsing (219) | ||
| 257213 | 2004-08-01 11:48:00 | The testing program can't see it. Windows scandisk was all ok. I used System Mechanic & defragged the memory. Still no worky |
phil.b (4456) | ||
| 257214 | 2004-08-02 04:55:00 | If the manufacturer's test programme can't see the drive, something is wrong. :D I think I would try to find some configuration in which the drive diagnostic can check it out. The delay/no delay in lockup might indicate a fault in the cache memory on the drive. Of course, it might not. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 257215 | 2004-08-02 05:31:00 | What's the brand of IDE card? If the manufacturers test program boots from floppy it may not have a driver for it. What MB and drive brand while you're at it :-) | PaulD (232) | ||
| 257216 | 2004-08-02 07:35:00 | >If the manufacturer's test programme can't see the drive, something is wrong i've tried a few before and they won't see a drive on a raid/ide card as the card "gets in the way". i think theres a warning in the readme of the programs about it. however if you replace the main drive with the suspect one and boot with a boot disk then run the manafactures tools. |
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