PIO/DMA Problem with Plextor 16/10/40A

[Diomedes01]

Hi all,

I recently upgraded my box to a 1.2Ghz Athlon running on an Asus A7M266 w/ 256 MB of Crucial PC2100. I installed a Plextor 16/10/40A as the only drive (set as master) on the secondary IDE controller. The problem is that the BIOS will not set the drive to DMA-2 mode. If set to auto-detect, it sets PIO mode to 4 and disables DMA. In Win2k, if I check the IDE controller settings, it is set to "DMA if available", but the current mode is always listed as PIO. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Will

 

[MaxImuMAdVaNtAgE]

that may be a bios issue...have you flashed to the latest version? if not try that...

other than that, i dunno...if manually setting the udma and pio the way you want it dowsn't work, you may be stuck with what autodetect gives you :frown:

MaxImuM

 

[aUt0eXebat]

try installing win2k pro, i have the same drive and win2k pro, but before sp2, it still worked fine. it must be the BIOS, but id try sp2 if you dont already have it

 

[h0vic]

After changing the IDE controller settings to "DMA if available", did you restart your computer? I have the 1210A and after restarting, it shows the current mode as DMA.

 

[GregANDTCH]

Hey,
I think there's a "jumper hack"
for this drive that forces your computer to
see it in "DMA mode".
Somewhere in this thread:
Thread

 

[CivilRightsLawyer]

that is right..there is a jumper hack..

just jumper the two pins on the far LEFT side (if you are holding the back of the plextor drive and facing you)..

more info at

www.cdrinfo.com

i havent tried yet...