My ata133 drives only show up as ata33

[dario03]

I still haven't got my drives running at the right speed. Which is really annoying because I have all my other hardware running faster than stock. Anyway the cables are 80pin it says on newegg where I bought them that their ata133. So does anybody else have suggestions?

 

[alexsabree]

hmm... new wires and if that doesnt work, new MoBo

 

[dario03]

The mobo is a Asus A8N-E socket 939 and supports ata133.

 

[Nitestick]

also if they are on the same cable as dvd/cd drives they will be limited to ata33

did you check that?

 

[dario03]

dvd drive is on its own cable.

 

[PP Mguire]

Install your chipset drivers and SP1. Your HDs will be limited to DMA mode 5 if you dont have SP1 and chipset drivers installed. Also, some older ATA133 HDs require the software that came w/ it to be installed as well. idk why this is but my older 200gig Maxtor is that way. So chipset drivers, SP1, and HD controler/drivers.

 

[dario03]

I have SP2 and newest chipset drivers. I don't think theres any software for my hdds but I'll check.

 

[PP Mguire]

Well if there is no program or anything then you sir have me stumped. Jumper settings is the only other thing i can think of.

 

[AnthraX]

What are your hard drives?

 

[dario03]

One is a seagate and one is a western digital. Both 160gb, one is 2mb cache one is 8mb cache.

In my device manager they show up as
ST3160023A
WDC WD160JB-00GVA0

Western digital has a program called "Promise Ultra 100 TX2 Controller Card Driver " but thats for making 137gb and larger drives work.