how do I enable the ide 2 to udma in win2k?

[rustynail]

I got the primary working at udma but not the secondary? how do I get it going?

Any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[ddiccico]

try the device manager. click properties on ide2, and advanced settings. there should be a pull down menu, it will say something like "dma if available" or "pio only"

 

[rustynail]

I did try that. The device manager is set on "dma if available" but it is still in pio mode.

 

[ddiccico]

did you reboot?

 

[rustynail]

Yes I did. I got the primary ide working by disabling it in the bios. I tried the same thing for the IDE2 but it didn't have any effect.

 

[ddiccico]

what's on the second bus?

 

[rustynail]

I have my cd-rom and my cd-r. writing to the cdr takes a loooong time.

 

[rustynail]

Bump

 

[ddiccico]

is it an old cdrom? it could be that the cdrom is not ata33. the bus will run at the speed of the slowest device.

 

[rustynail]

No, It is a new CD rom, 52x. I had my system up and running before and it worked fine. However, for some reason it is not acting properly. is there a fix that I could try?

 

[ddiccico]

sorry I'm out of ideas. I don't know why it would work on one bus and not the other.