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primay IDE chanel keeps setting it self to PIO mode

Started by MahatmaGandi , Sep 06 2008 09:02 AM

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Tyger

Posted 07 September 2008 - 01:42 PM

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Something not mentioned yet is, it is not a good idea to have optical drives on the same IDE channel as hard drives. That can somtimes force the controller into PIO mode.