UDMA/100 IDE Controller recommended for this HD. What Now?

[presto]

I have an ATI AIW Radeon 7500 card. It works fine with my system drive and a 60 GB drive installed. I just pulled out the 60 GB drive and replaced it with a 120 GB drive (IBM Desktar 2MB buffer, 7200 RPM, 8.5 ms Average Seek Time). Now ATI Multimedia center refuses to record onto the new drive. (I hit record and it just flickers but the record window does not come up). It will still record onto the system drive.

The 120GB drive seems to work fine and I can copy video onto and off of it and can play the videos it has on it. It is just that ATI MMC won't work.

I popped the new drive out and put the old one back and it worked fine so it is something about the new drive.

For my 120 GB drive a UDMA/100 IDE controller is recommended. How do I see if I have one of those? Could that be the problem even though the drive seems to be working fine in general?

[redwudz]

Not sure what the ATI would have to do with it, but go to Start>Control Panel>System>Hardware>Device Manager>IDE controllers>Primary IDE channel>Properties>Advanced and make sure DMA is selected. Also if the drive came with a 80 conductor cable, make sure to use it. Usually if you already have this type of cable in the computer, it is IDE 100 or better.

[presto]

Thanks but, I allready checked DMA and that I have an 80 conductor cable.

[RabidDog]

re-install the aiw software withe 120gb drive in place, that is a fairly drastic way to cure it. or are you using win98??

[presto]

Windows XP