IDE2SAT2 working in PIO mode

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Hi, I installed this board on an industrial PC to connect a SATA SSD to the only available IDE interface (ATA100).
On the mainboard I have only one IDE connector available for the primary channel, the secondary is detected at the O.S. level but there is no connector.

So HDD and CD Reader are connected to the primary IDE channel:

  • IDE2SAT2 set to MASTER mode.
  • CD Reader set to slave mode

Read/write operations on SSD are much slower than the traditional IDE HDD was mounted.
I checked how it is handled by the O.S. (Windows 2000 Pro) and found that while the CD Reader is running in UDMA mode, the SSD is running in PIO mode, despite the IDE controller driver being set to “DMA if available” for both devices.

What am I missing?

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Hello @ldpr and thank you for your interest in our Community.

I am sorry to hear about this issue. Would it be possible to first try swapping the two cable positions, and then perhaps also testing with the SSD alone (no CD reader)?

Thank you for your time and have a great day!

Emmanuel B.