Installing this CDRW on my system (A7V) was...wierd. The Auto setting in Bios disabled DMA support and I when I checked the DMA box in Win98 it (the checkmark) would disappear after a reboot.
When I manually set the drive type as CD in bios and set the DMA to mode 2, Win98 did not detect it. I then tried mode 1 - same result. When I set it to Mode 0, it was detected in windows and I was able to check the DMA box in properties. What the heck is mode 0?
I have this drive on the secondary IDE connector by itself as a master. The primary ide connector has a hard drive and CD as primary/slave. My 7200 rpm ata-100 Maxtor is connected to the Promise ATA-100 controller. When I put the CDRW on the ATA-100 connector it also did not assign a dma mode (the hard drive is detected and assigned mode 5).
Any ideas what is going on here? My drivers and bios are all latest revisions. I flashed the firmware on the CD to the latest version.
When I manually set the drive type as CD in bios and set the DMA to mode 2, Win98 did not detect it. I then tried mode 1 - same result. When I set it to Mode 0, it was detected in windows and I was able to check the DMA box in properties. What the heck is mode 0?
I have this drive on the secondary IDE connector by itself as a master. The primary ide connector has a hard drive and CD as primary/slave. My 7200 rpm ata-100 Maxtor is connected to the Promise ATA-100 controller. When I put the CDRW on the ATA-100 connector it also did not assign a dma mode (the hard drive is detected and assigned mode 5).
Any ideas what is going on here? My drivers and bios are all latest revisions. I flashed the firmware on the CD to the latest version.
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