PIO stands for Programmed Input/Output. A predecessor to DMA and UDMA
and generally slower. What type of disk have you installed as hdc?
If its a new or relatively new (6 years or so old) then you might want
to take a look in the BIOS to see if you can set it to DMA mode or
Auto.
Regards
Robert
On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 13:34:17 -0000, adam beecher <lists at beecher.net> wrote:
> I want to RAID mirror my primary partition (IDE device A partition 3) to
> another drive, what do I need to do? Very little experience with RAID. This
> is my hardware setup.
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
>> What's "pio", an empty slot?
>> adam
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