DMA in Windows XP

[lemarr]

I made some backups of my music cd's. I had some skipping or pauseing on the backups when I played them. My question is where can I check in Windows XP to make sure the DMA is turned on to the cd rom drives? I remember when I was using Windows 98 I would have the same problem when the DMA was turning off.

Thanks

 

[Zim Hosein]

lemarr, don't take this as gospel, but I'm almost sure that XP has DMA automatically turned on for optical drives.

 

[boyRacer]

you go to device manager... click on IDE controllers... and then look at the properties for the primary and secondary controller... depending on where your drive is hooked up.

 

[millsy]

Windows XP will automatically enable DMA if the hardware will take it.

Sounds more like you need a 'Burn Proof' CDRW.