New CD rom not holding DMA setting

[malbojah]

Ok, here's the background: I bought my sister a generic CrapUSA cdrom drive for Christmas. She installs it, Windows sees it just fine, yet when she goes to rip audio CD's MusicMatch only rips at 0.6x (which was the speed of her old drive). She has the lastest Windows driver loaded. I told her to enable DMA in the Device manager, but her system won't hold that setting. In her bois, the option for either DMA or PIO mode is set to auto. Should she change that to DMA only and then try to enable DMA mode in the device manager??

 

[Agent004]

First what windows are your sister running? From you description, you already know what to do.

If you turned on dma in the bio, it will force the drive to be ruuning in dma. If you have an Intel chipset motherboard, you can try the Intel application accelerator and use that to set it to dma.

 

[Damascus]

Since you mentioned that it was a generic drive, I'm inclined to conclude that the
drive simply isn't capable of using DMA and impotent when it comes to doing DAE.
Get a Plextor

 

[malbojah]

As much as I would love to give her a Plextor, they don't make (at least according to their website) a IDE compatible CDrom only drive. All SCSI now (which I can use, but my new [err, old...err whatever] system already has 2 NEC scsi drives in it)

 

[Damascus]

Well if it does indeed turn out to be the CDROM being bad and you end up having
to get a new one, my memory recalls that Toshiba IDE drives are good at DAE.

 

[pISSANt]

If you are running on win98 then I had a similar problem a while back. Here's how I solved the problem. Go to:
my computer/device manager/hard disk controller/via bus master IDE controller(or similar)/properties/resourses.

What you need to do then is uncheck the "use automatic settings" box. This will enable you to change to the I/O settings. I think only one will be able to be changed, at least on mine there is(last one). Find the I/O that you can change by double clicking and move the I/O addresse up or down a few spots to a non-conflicting spot. After doing that, all has worked great. Hope this solves the problem.

 

[Lorne]

Malbo, If you being generous Ill take that Plextor SCSI off you hands, I mainly run scsi but have one ide CDRW (Creative 8432e), This one also deosnt stay in DMA mode. (98se), I hate ide cdrw, takes them so long to recognize any disk you put into it and hangs the system something fearce when it cant figure out what it is.

 

[malbojah]

Sorry Lorne, I was commenting on how Plextor doesn't make IDE Scsi cdroms. I have 2 NEC scsi cdroms that I will eventually be using in my new server )damn thing wieghs a ton though)