Anybody else experience this? I have a Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA Hard Disk where I put all my games in for high performance (since SATA technology promises better performance than ULTRA ATA). Thing is, if heavy disk activity happens (like when I play graphic intensive games like Half-Life 2), it goes to PIO Mode (something Win2k and WinXP will do if supposedly more than 6 CRC errors are detected), and performance degrades drastically (so much for SATA being faster huh?); in fact Half-Life 2 crashes when it happens. At least it goes back to UMDA-5 if I reboot. Still, this is really fishy, because in the same PC I also have a Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA Hard Disk (where I store video files in since they're so huge) that never experiences that problem.
My specs by the way:
Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz Prescott
Inno3D GeForce FX5600 w/ 256MB Video RAM and VIVO
ASUS P4P800-X Motherboard (Intel 865PE chipset, has provision for 2 SATA devices)
1GB PC3200 DDR RAM
Seagate 30GB 5400RPM Hard Disk (boot disk)
Seagate Barracuda 120GB Hard Disk (primary slave)
Seagate Barracuda 200GB SATA Hard Disk
Seagate Barracuda 120GB SATA Hard Disk (the one that's going PIO mode)
Sony DRU-710 DVD Burner with Dual-Layer writing support
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Soundcard
Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2
þetta gerist fyrir fleira fólk en mig

en þegar diskurinn fer i pio mode, hvernig læt ég hann hætta þessir gaurar þarna tala bara um pio mode ,,,en ætla lesa meira um þetta en btw vesit þú eitthvað um þetta Elsku gnarr.
