I bought a Pioneer 106s 16x DVD-ROM drive online. It's an OEM drive. I set it to master and I put it in DMA mode. If I put in an audio disc, it reads it and plays music fine. I put in a regular CD or DVD disc, it'll see the disc, but if I try to execute a program on the disc or access a file, it would give me an I/O error. At first I thought the drive might be bad so I RMA it back and just got a replacement. The same EXACT problem happens w/ this drive. So I conclude 1) they returned the same defective drive to me or 2) something is wrong on my side and not the drive's fault. So I tried to put the drive in PIO mode and rebooted. Now my drive can read CD/DVD and I can access files on it w/o an I/O error. But as we all know PIO mode is friggin' SLOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW. This absolutely makes NO sense. How can this new drive not handle DMA mode when my old Creative Labs 8x dvd-rom can??? Someone please help me figure this one out before I have to call the place up and b*tch at them to send me another drive.
MSI sis645 p4 mobo.
pioneer 106s dvd-rom 1.22 firmware
If I'm missing any useful info, please let me know.
BTW, I have a Pioneer DVR-104 on the same IDE chain and it's working flawless w/ DMA enabled. So I'm pretty sure it's not an IDE driver issue.
MSI sis645 p4 mobo.
pioneer 106s dvd-rom 1.22 firmware
If I'm missing any useful info, please let me know.
BTW, I have a Pioneer DVR-104 on the same IDE chain and it's working flawless w/ DMA enabled. So I'm pretty sure it's not an IDE driver issue.
