hey guys
I have an Abit KT7A running a 1.2ghz TB. It has a 45gig Maxtor 7200RPM harddrive connected and also a Hi-Val 52x CD-Rom. I'm planning to buy the LiteOn 12x10x32 today.
I'm running Win2k Advanced Server and I'm seeing the Secondary IDE (connected to cd rom) running in PIO mode (seen through device manager). Originally, when I first connected the comp, the Harddrive was also running in PIO mode for some reason and the comp was slow as crap.
but in the forums, i found out that I had to set the DMA to disable in bios and let win2k detect UDMA on its on... for the harddrive it worked perfectly but the CDROM it still shows PIO mode.
Now in other threads I've read that the cdrom drive may already be in DMA mode but win2k just not showing it... anyway to test the rate of the cdrom? it's a 52x.
the cdrom is connected to the secondary ide connector.
a questions:
a regular ide cable has 3 connectors to it... the connector that goes into the ide connector on the mobo and the other two are for master and slave... does it matter which one i connect to master? or is master the closest one toward the mobo connector?
thanks
I have an Abit KT7A running a 1.2ghz TB. It has a 45gig Maxtor 7200RPM harddrive connected and also a Hi-Val 52x CD-Rom. I'm planning to buy the LiteOn 12x10x32 today.
I'm running Win2k Advanced Server and I'm seeing the Secondary IDE (connected to cd rom) running in PIO mode (seen through device manager). Originally, when I first connected the comp, the Harddrive was also running in PIO mode for some reason and the comp was slow as crap.
but in the forums, i found out that I had to set the DMA to disable in bios and let win2k detect UDMA on its on... for the harddrive it worked perfectly but the CDROM it still shows PIO mode.
Now in other threads I've read that the cdrom drive may already be in DMA mode but win2k just not showing it... anyway to test the rate of the cdrom? it's a 52x.
the cdrom is connected to the secondary ide connector.
a questions:
a regular ide cable has 3 connectors to it... the connector that goes into the ide connector on the mobo and the other two are for master and slave... does it matter which one i connect to master? or is master the closest one toward the mobo connector?
thanks
