CD-R should have DMA checked or unchecked in WinME?

[fs5]

Under System Properties->Device Manager->CD-R properties (Plextor 8/4/32A)->settings

Should the DMA box be checked?

 

[Supradude]

if your drive will support DMA, it should better performance, just check it and restart, if the option stays checked, your supported, if it's unchecked, your drive probably doesn't support DMA

 

[bonkers325]

i check it
lowers cpu usage and increases overall performance

 

[fs5]

Did a little searching on cnet as to what DMA meant exactly, I can't believe I never knew this stuff before! I enabled DMA on my 75GXP and geez, it's much faster now. Stupid me
Thanks for the help guys, sorry for the bother.

 

[NotoriousJTC]

I couldnt find my hard drive in "device manager". Could someone tell me the path to it so i can enable DMA? Thanks.

 

[fs5]

System Properties->Device Manager->Disk Drives->Generic IDE Disk TypeXX ->settings

At least that's what mine is.

 

[NotoriousJTC]

Oh ok, i thought instead of Generic it would say what the Hard Drive rand was or whatever. In that case i checked it. Thanks.

 

[Jeff H]

NotoriousJTC, in the old days (read Win95) Device Mgr. would identify your hard drive brand, now Win98 etc. simply identifies as a Generic Disk Type 46 or 47.

fivespeed5, Plextor recommends in their manual that you enable DMA for the 8/4/32 CD-RW drive. Enough said <g>.

 

[Noriaki]

Plextor recommends that you run with DMA

Yamaha recommends you run without DMA..not sure why but they do..

 

[major_major]

yeah, i had a yamaha and had DMA enabled, and my computer would crash all the time while burning..after disabling DMA--totally stable..i also have a plextor that runs totally fine with DMA enabled

 

[Dulanic]

Not always Jeff... 98 recognizes my Maxtor and WD HDs and doesnt say generic. Although that might be because Im using ATA100 which Windows treats as SCSI for some reason.

 

[Jeff H]

Dulanic, don't you just love the consistent nature of Win9x <g>? Everytime there appears to be something that's consistent, someone else has the exception. And MS wonders why people scratch their heads over much of the software they put out there.