Lite-on Burner PIO only?

[RanDum72]

I have a Lite-on 12x10x32 burner that will operate in PIO mode under XP only. I got it from Newegg and it seems like an OEM drive for HP computers. I flashed it to the latest firmware (LKUA) but still no go. Is there another firmware that enables it?

 

[bacillus]

out of curiousity, have you got another device on the same channel & is the liteon master or slave?

 

[RanDum72]

Its the master drive and the only one in the IDE channel.

 

[busmaster11]

CD-RW drives don't need to be UDMA - they're not that fast. think 48x*150KB/s = 7.2 megs/s max, which is fully supported by the PIO4/5 or DMA1/2 settings... Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

DVD drives are another story. Besides, with IDT (independent drive timing) you can have a DVD drive mastering the same channel with no performance hit.

 

[LostHiWay]

Go into the BIOS and manually set the IDE channel to UDMA mode 2. See if that helps

 

[RaiderJ]

I had the same problem in WinXP with my 24x Plextor and a DVD drive that were rated for DMA. I went into the device manager, and deleted the two drives, and the two IDE channels. When I restarted the machine, it re-found those devices, and magically they both were running under DMA mode again.

Also check your BIOS, there may be a setting there that needs adjusting too.

Does that help?

 

[MistaTastyCakes]

Are you using a Via chipset? Seems a lot of people are having similar problems according to viatech.com forums. Heck, so am I. I'vew got all the cables in correctly, tried every combo of master/slave I could think of, uninstalled and reinstalled Windows, the IDE channels in device manager, changed em all to DMA If Available, changed my BIOS and checked and rechecked it.. installed Via miniport drivers.. no luck. I've got a Maxtor HD and a Toshiba DVD working properly, but my Sony 32/10/40 insists on being in PIO no matter what. The miniport drivers might help ya out, they've helped some people. According to the tool that comes with em, my burner was finally put into DMA mode, but then it wouldn't show up in device manager or My Computer. Go figure.

I'm not sure if it's XP, Via, or the burner itself, but there's some problems. My old 8/4/32 burner was stuck in PIO as well, so I'm guessing it's either XP or Via or the combo of em or some combo of hardware.. I dunno. If you fix it, send me a PM cause I'm suffering from the same exact problem as you.

 

[RanDum72]

My motherboard is the Abit NV7m (micto-ATX) so the chipset is nforce. The BIOS doesn't have the option of setting Ultra-DMA settings (OK it does but its only on/off). Tried uninstalling the IDE controller and have XP re-install it but still PIO. And this thing has errors under CloneCD (says something like 'servo-error' and stops when its 4% done).