Pioneer DVD-ROM won't switch to DMA from PIO

[Billy69]

I have a 16x Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-116 that will only run in PIO mode. It will not switch to DMA when I try to change the option in the device manager. The result is poor performance (skipping) when I play DVDs or transfer data from a normal cd. It's alone on an ATA-100 IDE cable as a secondary master using the end connector. Switching to an ATA-33 cable didn't fix the problem and reported an error during the POST. Can someone please help me w/ this?

Thanks!

SPECS:
16x Pioneer DVD-ROM DVD-116 (Alone on sec IDE channel)
XP Pro
Abit KT7A ver 1.3 (Latest BIOS)
Latest VIA 4in1 drivers (442 v(a)p2)
7200RPM 40GB WD ATA-100 HD (Alone on pri IDE channel)
256MB RAM
Duron 900 Socket A
Gainward GF4 Ti4200
SB live! WDM

 

[ISAslot]

And you have it set to DMA in the bios?

 

[Billy69]

In the Integrated Peripherals menu of the BIOS, both the pri and sec IDE channels have PIO and Ultra DMA set to auto for both the master and the slave of each channel. The only other option for Ultra DMA is disable so XP should be able to detect the dma option, but it doesn't switch from PIO in the device manager.

 

[RanDum72]

You either get the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers or update the firmware of the DVD drive and see if it works.