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Setting transfer mode for hard drive
Name: robert Date: January 8, 2000 at 09:27:19 Pacific
Comment:
I installed a 1.2 G hard drive in a P120 box, let BIOS auto detect (it set up as 2477 cyl, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, mode fast PIO3, LBA disabled, 32 bit access enabled, multi sector transfers-16 sectors) and installed win95b. AOK. Then I enabled DMA for the drive in Device manager and reboot. Windows loads to the point where the mouse pointer first appears and freezes with a msgsrv32 error. When I boot to safe mode I can not deselect the DMA option for the hard drive so I checked "disable all 32 bit protected mode disk drivers" in advanced file properties of performance. Now windows loads in DOS compatibility mode. There is no NoIDE key in the registry. At H_L_M/current control set/ services/ class/ hdc the inf path is mshdc.inf section BadIDE and the driver is esdi_506.pdr (the windows busmaster driver) Is there a hack that will deselect the DMA option and allow windows to use it’s protected mode driver with mode PIO3? Hd supports PIO3 max
Name: robert Date: January 8, 2000 at 20:04:00 Pacific
Reply:
In the hard drive manual they list cylinders 619, heads 64, sectors/tr 67 If I enter these values in the BIOS and enable LBA will I lose the data on the hard drive?
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