Comments on: Fix for sudden hard or CD/DVD drive slowdown

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 18:19:00 +0000

really 1000s of thanks to u for shring this…

By: Pallab

Pallab — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:14:23 +0000

This had happened to me quite a few times, right before my Optical drive died. I got so frustrated towards the end that I downloaded a small vbscript to automatically do this stuff for me.

By: Rarst

Rarst — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:22:12 +0000

@Biomancer

Yeah, for hard drive it is usually bad sign.

But for optical drives this is often triggered by petty reasons like crappy disc. In this last case it was triggered by mistakingly choosing too high speed for burning disc.

By: Biomancer

Biomancer — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:24:12 +0000

Still, that mode switch rarely happens with no reasons, and in my practice it’s usually caused by some hardware problems, like damaged IDE cable, or, sometimes, even a dying drive. So PIO mode is always a warning for me…