Problem with DMA.

[zmzhang]

I have 2 harddrives on primary and 1 cd burner on secondary. I was burning a cd the other day when i realized that the buffer moved alot. I took a look under device manager and found that only my master harddrive was on dma and the others are on pio. I tried messing around in the bios to get dma to turn on, but it won't. I took a look at the event viewer and discovered this.

The driver has detected that device \Device\Ide\IdePort0 has old or out-of-date firmware. Reduced performance may result.

Is this the firmware for my cd burner or hd? How would i fix this? BTW, ACPI is enabled in both my bios and windoze.
Thanks

Computer Specs:
Asus P3V4X
P3 750mhz
1 fuijitsu 2 gig (master)
1 maxtor 5 gig (slave)
1 Acer 10X4X32X (master)
Windows 2K

 

[hkazemi26]

\Device\Ide\IdePort0 has old or out-of-date firmware

The 0 (zero) part of this designates master (i am pretty sure). i have never heard of HD firmware updates. Check out your burner website. if your other drive is on PIO it's probably b/c it's an old drive. I have the same mobo as you and am prety sure it default sets drives to max designated speed. I had an older HD that was PIO and then upgraded and the BIOS automatically reflected the update.

 

[zmzhang]

^bump

 

[mrbass]

If I were you I'd put both hds on master (os hd on primary and other hd on secondary)
put your burner on primary slave.

which os we talking about here?
device manager for win2000/xp and change it to dma under ide channels.

 

[tcsenter]

1 fuijitsu 2 gig (master)
1 maxtor 5 gig (slave)

Time for a new HDD? Those are looking pretty old. Especially the Fujitsu, which had some drive electronics problems in the early busmastering and Ultra DMA days. In fact, most of the manufacturers had some glitches. How are these drives reported during POST insofar as the DMA mode supported?

What the driver is probably detecting is a problem with Ultra DMA transfers, not DMA itself. But since the IDE driver is oblivious to Ultra DMA, for all practical purposes, it only sees DMA. If you cannot get DMA enabled, try entering BIOS and disabling UDMA for the Fujitsu and Maxtor drives. This will still allow all DMA modes up to Multi-Word DMA 2, it only prevents Ultra mode timing, but you have to toggle DMA in the driver option via Device Manager (or however its done in W2K).

Also, the P3V4X has VIA chipset does it not? Have you installed the IDE driver for W2K from the VIA 4-in-1? How about W2K service packs or hot fixes? One or the other should work, both aren't required.