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DMA vs. PIO on laptop DVD/CD-RW drive

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hwan

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Guys,

Our 9300 came with a DVD/CD-RW drive but it takes forever to rip a CD or to burn one. I checked the IDE device and it's running on PIO (DMA is set to "if available"). Does the drive have to support DMA for it to work? Please help.

Thanks in advance.
 
All modern drives should support UDMA. Check the BIOS to see if there's any settings there, then uninstall the IDE drivers in Device Manager and reboot. The drive should be back to UDMA.
 
Thanks. I've already checked the BIOS and there was nothing regarding the IDE channel that can be changed. I'll try un-installing the IDE driver tonight.
 
Is the drive in the laptop all the time or is it being put into the bay after bootup? If it's not there during bootup for whatever reason it will not run in DMA mode. I have the same thing happen on my Inspiron 8200 with my media bay burner. The only "fix" is to leave it in there all the time.
 
Originally posted by: hwan
Thanks. I've already checked the BIOS and there was nothing regarding the IDE channel that can be changed. I'll try un-installing the IDE driver tonight.
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do NOT uninstalling the driver.
right click on the second ide channel>uninstall then reboot.
 
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