NO DMA on Fujistsu 40.9GB UATA100? Why?

[FalseChristian]

I have an ABIT-ST6RAID and my 10.8GB UATA66 hard-drive has DMA enabled and so does my Memorex 48x CD-ROM (UATA33) but I can't enable DMA on the big drive? Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[andrey]

Are you using Via 4-in-1 drivers? Some of the version have big problems with enabling UDMA for hard drives.. If you recently upgraded to the latest version, try to roll back driver to the previous version.

 

[HamSupLo]

I'm having the same problem with the UDMA setting for my hardrive as well. You can check out my lengthy post here.. Maybe you can give us more details.

 

[FalseChristian]

Andrey, the ABIT-VH6T uses a Via chipset; the ABIT-ST6/ST6RAID uses Intel's 815EP chip.

I see I'm not the only one here having DMA problems. I guess we'll have to wait for the next BIOS update of an improvement in Intel's .inf file.

 

[nortexoid]

try setting DMA mode 5 in your bios - i know this worked for SIS735 based boards which couldn't activate DMA properly.

 

[FalseChristian]

Sorry, I don't have that option.