DMA Problem w/. WinXP.

[IceT]

My XP box has been running fine for months, however, I just noticed a problem last night. I couldn't turn DMA back on for my DVD ROM drive which is a secondary master along with my burner, secondary slave. Even though I selected "use DMA if available" for my DVD, after a restart, it's still PIO mode. However, my burner still have DMA enabled as well as my two HDs on primary master/slave.

I tried installing the latest ViA drive, still, no go. No DMA for my DVD.

Please advise.

 

[toant103]

try to enable it in the BIOS

 

[IceT]

My BIOS detects both drives as ATA/33.

Like I started noticing that the DMA wasn't on for my DVD. But before, the DMA was enabled for all drives no problem. I haven't added/removed any hardware lately.

 

[afzan]

in your bios try setting all the drives to none except for your boot drive...

 

[IceT]

I tried your method, setting UDMA disabled for my optical drives. Still, no DMA for my DVD but for my burner.

I don't know why, seems so strange to me.

 

[chopstxxx]

Did you figure it out? I'm having the same problem right now with my burner

 

[bacillus]

you could try removing that 2nd ide channel in device manager, reboot & windows should redetect/reinstall it with hopefully both drives using dma transfers!

 

[Dreadogg]

are you using ata 100 or 133 cable's?

 

[Mem]

<< I couldn't turn DMA back on for my DVD ROM drive which is a secondary master along with my burner, secondary slave >>



Try going into Bios under "Intergrated peripherals" and look for secondary master & secondary slave , then select ATA-33 or 66 (whatever the correct ATA speed is for your drives)rather then auto.

 

[IceT]

Yeah, got it figured out already. Did the same as Bacillus say. It works for me

 

[chopstxxx]

<< are you using ata 100 or 133 cable's? >>



I'm using ata-133 rounded cables from svc. I tried unistalling the drive and rebooting, and disabling everything in bios. I don't have the option to set the transfer speed in bios, only to choose whether or not to detect dma. I still can't get this to work. Any other suggestions?