Samsung Spinpoint 1TB Overheating Problem
- Thread starter Kingy1968
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Err, help! 
Tried removing the controller and letting it reinstall but still no DMA mode so thought I'd try installing the full Intel Matrix Storage drivers in place of the built-in MS ones.
This has worked in that both my hard drives are now showing as "Generation 2" under the transfer mode (presume this means DMA mode in addition to SATA-3Gb? or is there something else I need to check) but has had a weird effect.
I also have an external Quickport SATA drive dock connected to the controller via eSATA. This worked fine before but now the drive appears fine in the Intel Manager app, showing all the correct details and size (232.8Gb) but, in Windows Disk Management, comes up as an "Unknown" disk of twice the actual size (465.76GB). I'm scared to try anything on this disk as there is data on it I don't want to lose.
Anyone got any ideas?
Tried removing the controller and letting it reinstall but still no DMA mode so thought I'd try installing the full Intel Matrix Storage drivers in place of the built-in MS ones.
This has worked in that both my hard drives are now showing as "Generation 2" under the transfer mode (presume this means DMA mode in addition to SATA-3Gb? or is there something else I need to check) but has had a weird effect.
I also have an external Quickport SATA drive dock connected to the controller via eSATA. This worked fine before but now the drive appears fine in the Intel Manager app, showing all the correct details and size (232.8Gb) but, in Windows Disk Management, comes up as an "Unknown" disk of twice the actual size (465.76GB). I'm scared to try anything on this disk as there is data on it I don't want to lose.
Anyone got any ideas?
Anyone got any ideas on this one? It's got me totally stumped as the dock/drive was connected to the same port on the same controller prior to the Intel drivers being installed and I've not switched the mode of the controller from AHCI. Might try uninstalling the Intel drivers and see if it recognises it again.
Ok this is weird.
Came up as an unknown disk of double the correct size regardless of how it was connected. Tried through the Quickport and directly to the mobo. Tried connected at power on and after booting. Tried different port on the ICH controller. Always the same. One thing I did notice is that, whilst the drive appeared correctly in the Matrix Storage Manager, in device manager it appeared as simply "Volume0" rather than the drive's model number as with the two internal drives - really weird. Almost as if the controller thought the drive was half of a RAID1 volume or something.
Now I've just uninstalled the Intel drivers and let the built-in one redetect everything and it's fine. The original PIO Mode problem is gone (for now at least) and all drives are showing as Ultra DMA Mode 6, including the external one which now comes up correctly. In addition, I did used to have hotswap issues with the external dock whereby the drive would take ages to disappear after it was powered off whereas now it goes after a few seconds which is much better.
Will keep an eye on it.
Came up as an unknown disk of double the correct size regardless of how it was connected. Tried through the Quickport and directly to the mobo. Tried connected at power on and after booting. Tried different port on the ICH controller. Always the same. One thing I did notice is that, whilst the drive appeared correctly in the Matrix Storage Manager, in device manager it appeared as simply "Volume0" rather than the drive's model number as with the two internal drives - really weird. Almost as if the controller thought the drive was half of a RAID1 volume or something.
Now I've just uninstalled the Intel drivers and let the built-in one redetect everything and it's fine. The original PIO Mode problem is gone (for now at least) and all drives are showing as Ultra DMA Mode 6, including the external one which now comes up correctly. In addition, I did used to have hotswap issues with the external dock whereby the drive would take ages to disappear after it was powered off whereas now it goes after a few seconds which is much better.
Will keep an eye on it.
