Posted by smh on 12/15/05 19:06

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Mike Richter, were you born with
"Scam Artist" emblazoned on your face?
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"come_mon_come_mon!" wrote:
> smh 寫道：
>
> > > > Go into the BIOS, and check the drives are recognized and set to
> > > > something like Auto or Enable.
> > >
> > > I found no similar setting, every time I insert a H/W component into
> > > the IDE bus, BIOS will automatically display it's configuration (e.g.
> > > LG GSA-4167B...) as PC started up.
> >
> > What do you have in the BIOS setup if not AUTO or Enable?
>
> If you talked about IDE master slave setup, I could tell you that the
> BIOS automatically displayed what it detected, that's it. I couldn't
> press key to change the setting shown.
>
> >
> > > > Then check the drives are on DMA:
> > > >
> > > > Control Panel, Sytem, Hardware, Device Manager, Ide Ata/Atapi
> > > > Controllers, Primary or Secondary IDE channel, Advanced tab
> > >
> > > Checked, it's DMA mode 2.
> >
> > What's the DMA mode of Sony?
>
> Also DMA mode 2

Was thinking maybe you misread. The graph you posted shows high cpu
usage giving indication that the drive is on PIO. Yet it's on DMA. Can
you check the cpu usage for hard disk operation?

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