ide channels..

[discman]

for some reason i seem too have 2 primary ide channels on the first device 0 says transfer mode 2 device 1 n/a same on the other except device 0 says transfer mode 5.on the secondary device 0.and 1 say not applicable.running xp is this normal.?

[blutach]

You should have a Primary IDE channel (usually the hard drives are here) and a Secondary IDE channel (usually you connect your DVD drive here).

Not applicable = no device connected.

DMA mode 5 - this is for your hard drive
DMA mode 2 - this is for your DVD drive

Regards

[BR7]

I have the same thing this is what I was told

The E510 does not have two primary IDE channels. It has two SATA controllers, plus one IDE controller for the two optical drives and uses SATA hard drives, not IDE drives.

[discman]

cheers anything else i should check ?

[discman]

br7

i also have sata hard drive

[Chewy]

jmet made a very usefull guide to a good tool

http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?t=64974

[smkymntgrl]

I have the same thing this is what I was told

After much contemplating and investigation and on this same issue, I had do take the pc to the "doctor" (for other reasons, don't ask!) and asked about this too. I also was told I had doubles because of the SATA controllers.

[blutach]

I also have SATA, but only 1 parallel is being reported.



Regards

[smkymntgrl]

I have double primary, double secondary, and double dual. I also have an external burner. I don't know if that makes a difference. Chewy had been helping me try to figure this issue out when I had "other" computer problems and when I took it in they told me the SATA was the reason why? I just took their word for it. Thisis the post of my device manager, ect....

Never had any trouble with bad burns but a nero speed tool test showed the external to be baaaaad results. Haven't tried a test lately.

[Chewy]

They are right about the sata part, it an pata emulation method which I
don't care much for. But then that's just me, I like standard stuff, nothing off the wall.

[mill]

nvidia nforce4 parallel ata controller
-nvidia nforce4 serial ata controller
-nvidia nforce4 serial ata controller
This is what was in the device mgr before i update the chipset drivers and this is what i have now what happened to the parallel ata controller?

[Chewy]

standard dual channel with primary and seconday are the PATA(parallel)

Pata parallel ata Sata Serial ata

[BR7]

@Chewy
I think you remember what mine looked like. I just want to make sure if my theory is right. I couldn't get my DMA to work correctly with my DVD drive until I installed a second drive . What I am thinking is that my DMA wont work correctly for my HD until I put a second HD in ?Is their way of forcing people to installing 2 CD/DVD drives and 2 HD's

[Chewy]

with a dell? all bets are off, just test speeds on drives, first pio burning or ripping will be ~2.5MB/s, a serial hard drive is on a special bus and dma is irrelevant(does not apply).

Dell and others(nvidia and intel) are using non compliant software/drivers
with windows xp.

[BR7]

Got ya
Thanks