Toshiba DVD

[Arithorn]

Hi guys... having a rather strange problem that I can't quite figure out.

A little while ago I upgraded my system, and everything worked perfectly. I've got my Toshiba DVD drive daisy chained with my Mitsumi CDRW, and they've both been working properly. A little while ago I noticed that DMA wasn't enabled on either, so I went ahead and enabled DMA only on the Toshiba DVD drive, as I've heard it increases performance. Now, I restarted, and windows didn't detect EITHER cd drive. I tried running in safe mode, and they worked perfectly - detected and everything. Bios also detects them. Please help me out here.. Rather at a loss at how to disable DMA (no option for it under the properties in Safe Mode).

Thanks!

 

[andalas]

You might be able to disable the DMA from the BIOS, choose to run at PIO.

 

[rickn]

would help to know what motherboard your running. If you have the option, turn off UDMA on the ide channels your cdrom's are connected too.

 

[Arithorn]

Thanks.. Just for the record, I'm running a Epox 8K7a and a 1.33Tbird with DDram

 

[Arithorn]

Heard something about VIA tech drivers while I was searching through the forums... Where do I go to get those (www.viatech.com?) and will they help at all?

 

[rickn]

go into the bios and set UDMA from [auto] to [disabled] on the ide channel your cdroms are on.

 

[Arithorn]

I love you guys. Thanks. Well, everything works now - but it begs the question.. Why did this happen? And even though DVDs seem to run fine, why can't I turn DMA on? Its a two year old Toshiba DVD SDM 1212

 

[rickn]

You can now go into device manager and check DMA for the Toshiba. it will work fine.

 

[Arithorn]

Thanks again Rickn. Any idea of the cause of the problem? I'm always curious 🙂