Windows XP disables my DMA

[VJ]

@Technoid: even wrt. smart ?
@Nowhere: hmm, one thing in red... is the smart-software from your drivemanufacturer ? (some drivers support features - e.g. temperature - that others don't, having software from a different manufacturer may result in unsupported features listing in red) If it is, it doesn't sound good news to me... IIRC smart rarely gives a false-positive error (in that it rarely gives an alert that turns out to be wrong), it can have false-negative issues though (thus that it doesn't give an error when things are going wrong).


Jörg

[Topha]

Wow, thanks for all the feedback

Its working now, thanks to a reg entry I found somewhere. Cant restart at the moment because I started encoding quite a few movies yesterday, and the queue isnt halfway through yet

I do have SP-1, but supposed to fix and fix is not always the same with Microsoft, is it?

Guess I'll just have to hope my HD keeps going until I can afford another one, and that S.M.A.R.T. is clever enough to warn me in time.

As soon as I can restart again, I'll run a disk diagnose tool

[Fat Tone]

Originally posted by Topha
Wow, thanks for all the feedback

Its working now, thanks to a reg entry I found somewhere.

Care to elaborate for the benefit of murc-kind and geeks everywhere?

[Technoid]

Vj;
Everything else on a SCSI drive is higher quality than on a IDE drive so why should smart be an exeption?

[Nowhere]

VJ, maxtor diagnostic utility reports this...and also other
something with sectors afai remember...realocating (maybe)

[leech]

Originally posted by Technoid
Vj;
Everything else on a SCSI drive is higher quality than on a IDE drive so why should smart be an exeption?

Which is why my system is all SCSI :-) the IDE channels are disabled through BIOS as well as the SATA controller that's onboard my motherboard. The problem with SCSI drives (especially the 10k ones) is that they run so damned HOT!

Leech

P.S. My two SCSI drives (first one is Quantum Atlas II 10k 73gb drive and second is IBM 9.1gb 7200rpm drive) are running at 34 C and 40 C. But they're operating temps are 5-50 C and 5-55C so I suppose I'm ok. The first drive has one of those harddrive coolers that you screw to the bottom of the drive and has two fans on it, and the other drive is mounted in my 5.25 inch bay with a front mounted cooler. I'm thinking that I need another bottom mounted cooler for that one, what do you all think? which one is louder would you say? (Considering I'm trying real hard to make my PC a bit more Quiet running..... (Tired of everyone at network parties complaining my computer is too loud ))

Leech