Just installed a second hard disk in my PC. All formatted and installed okay and disk works fine however I keep getting "Delayed Write failure" messages which are becoming very annoying. I've tried turning off the disk write caching but it's grayed out and won't let me.

I'm wondering if it is because the second disk is Ultra ATA-100 whilst the original is 133. The new (100) is slaved off the original 133 disc on the same cable. The cable is 100/133 and runs into a 66/100/133 controller card.
Question is then, would having 2 different types (100/133) of disk on the same cable cause these write delay problems?

Ta

 

The two differnet speeds won't cause that problem.

Are you able to run the second hard drive on a seperate cable ? as running 2 harddrives on the same cable causes slowdowns (can only read/write to one drive at a time).

Are you using windows 2000 ? I remember there being a fix for this eror in ServicePack3

 

Thanks. I'll try running the second drive on the other channel on the controller card; I take it I need to set the jumpers to Master on both drives if I do this?
Running XP Home btw