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Is it normal for Vista to have my HDD's in Multi Word DMA with AHCI enabled?

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fluxcapacitor

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I just enabled AHCI on my SATA HDD's. They are Maxtor 1TB 32MB cache's. I have 2 of them and now with AHCI enabled, Vista 32 Device Manger says they are in "Multi Word DMA mode 2". Before they were at Ultra DMA mode 5. Sandra is benching them at like 79MB/sec though so I'm thinking its fine. Anyone?
 
Download hdtune and it will show you exactly what you got. I think what you seeing there is dvd drive.
 
oh ok cool thanks. But I was definitely NOT seeing the DVD drive, it tells you what type of disk and it clearly said ATA Disk, whereas the DVD says DVDRW drive or whatever. I'm actually not in AHCI again because I had to Ghost restore due to another issue. But I'll check it out.
 
HD Tune Pro: MAXTOR STM31000340AS Information

Firmware version : MX15
Serial number : 9QJ06FQ8
Capacity : 931.5 GB (~1000.2 GB)
Buffer size : n/a
Standard : ATA/ATAPI-0 - SATA II
Supported mode : UDMA Mode 6 (Ultra ATA/133)
Current mode : UDMA Mode 7 (Ultra ATA/512)

S.M.A.R.T : yes
48-bit Address : yes
Read Look-Ahead : yes
Write Cache : yes
Host Protected Area : yes
Device Configuration Overlay : yes
Firmware Upgradable : yes
Automatic Acoustic Management: no
Power Management : yes
Advanced Power Management : no
Interface Power Management : no
Power-up in Standby : no
Security Mode : yes
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) : yes

Volume : F Drive (F:)
Capacity : 476937 MB
Free : 93380 MB
Usage : 80%
File system : NTFS
Serial : 2437-8D25

Volume : G Drive (G:)
Capacity : 476929 MB
Free : 34312 MB
Usage : 93%
File system : NTFS
Serial : 0494-EB50

So I guess its fine then and its either Windows or the driver reporting something wrong?
 
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