ATA troubles

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote:

>> At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA
 >>
> Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the "green" kind ? Such as
> Western Digital Caviar Green ?

Exactly.
I disabled the idle timer though.



> Also since they are ATA drives make sure you are using 80pins ribbons
> and that DMA is properly activated in BIOS.

They are SATA drives.



> You can also try to reduce DMA level, it must be on UDMA5 by default,
> try using UDMA 4 (aka UDMA/66) or UDMA 3.

Does this apply to SATA?
How would I do that?



  bye & Thanks
	av.