I have a new Athlon 700 system with an FIC SD11 motherboard. Before I acquired the basic system I purchased 2 Maxtor DiamondMax 40 plus hard drives for a great price (at least 2 reviews I read rated this model as a super HD). I now find that when I enable DMA in Windows 98SE, I lock up. The FIC WEB site gives only the following info:
"SD11 has hardware limitation working with Maxtor ATA/66 HDs in UDMA66 using DMA transfer mode. FIC has a beta BIOS, the NC6060 to auto drop the DMA transfer mode to UDMA33 and prevent system corruption while files are copied between IDE devices". I now question, 1)Should I just forget enabling DMA, and how much of a performance hit do I take? 2)Is this BIOS fix advisible to try, at best the system will drop back to UDMA 33 at times?
I would appreciate any advice from the more knowledgeable on this forum.
"SD11 has hardware limitation working with Maxtor ATA/66 HDs in UDMA66 using DMA transfer mode. FIC has a beta BIOS, the NC6060 to auto drop the DMA transfer mode to UDMA33 and prevent system corruption while files are copied between IDE devices". I now question, 1)Should I just forget enabling DMA, and how much of a performance hit do I take? 2)Is this BIOS fix advisible to try, at best the system will drop back to UDMA 33 at times?
I would appreciate any advice from the more knowledgeable on this forum.
