GSA-H55N riplock comes back!

Jacen_solo762 2008-05-23 06:55:06 UTC #1

I flashed my drive about 3 months ago per ala42's instructions and everything worked fine, my snail-pace drive actually became useful.
However, all of a sudden the riplock has returned and its now slower than a fortnight again. Could this be because of automatically upgraded firmware? I'd just like to check before i do any re-flashing, so that i can avoid a dead drive, i was nervous enough doing it the first time

Thanks =]

lawrywild 2008-05-23 09:51:55 UTC #2

Post a TRT with Nero DiscSpeed

chef 2008-05-23 12:57:30 UTC #3

[QUOTE=Jacen_solo762;2063229]I flashed my drive about 3 months ago per ala42’s instructions and everything worked fine, my snail-pace drive actually became useful.
[B]However, all of a sudden the riplock has returned[/B] and its now slower than a fortnight again. Could this be because of automatically upgraded firmware? I’d just like to check before i do any re-flashing, so that i can avoid a dead drive, i was nervous enough doing it the first time

Thanks =][/QUOTE]

That is impossible.

Check the DMA mode first.

Cleric 2008-06-08 23:00:34 UTC #4

Same thing happened on the GSA-H55N here too. DMA is set to automatic and was detected as DMA-5. I’m confused by this. I’ve even re-flashed the firmware and riplock is still present… Worked fine for a few weeks…

EDIT

Wow…so I was wrong. Those were my HDDs. DMA was enabled BUT it detected PIO mode. A quick search brought me to this page: http://winhlp.com/node/10
which contains this VB Script: http://winhlp.com/tools/resetdma.vbs

Ran that…rebooted…detected as DMA Mode 4 and works FINE now!