Hard Disk Monitoring

I'm trying to track down a drive that Windows forced to PIO mode.

Unfortunately I already reset it to DMA, so I cannot just look for the one that's PIO.

I do, however, know which Secondary IDE Channel it is served by.

viz: http://tinyurl.com/26ad8ng

I can see that the drive is served by "Intel(R) ICH10 Family 2 port ATA Storage Controller 2 - 3A26" by looking at the drive's "Information" tab.

I also know which "Secondary IDE Channel" serves the problem drive (the second Secondary one in the screen snap).

But I cannot figure out how to backtrack from knowing the Secondary IDE Channel | Properties | Advanced Settings | Device # to identifying serial number of the drive.

Is there a way? Or should I just wait for the next UDMA ==> PIO occurrance?

You may try this:

In the Computer Management -> Device Manager select View -> View devices by connection
This way Windows will display the relation of the disk controller, the channel and the drive.

Usually the PIO mode is selected when there are problems between the hard disk and the controller.
This may be reported in the text description for one or more drives by Hard Disk Sentinel. Do you see it for one or more drives?
If you can use the Report menu Send test report to developer, I can check the actual configuration and verify which drive is affected.

hdsentinel wrote:This may be reported in the text description for one or more drives by Hard Disk Sentinel. Do you see it for one or more drives?
If you can use the Report menu Send test report to developer, I can check the actual configuration and verify which drive is affected.

Problem was that I had already reset the PIO to UDMA - so there was nothing to see.

Next time, though, I will know how to track it down.

Thanks.