Unable To Enable DMA For My 56x CD-ROM

[fade2black]

I have a Windows XP m/c on which I have installed an Afreey 56x CD-ROm drive (Model: CD2056E).

I got this CD-ROm because I heard that it has good ripping speeds. But, whenever I rip a CD I find that it never goes above 5.7x speed (and most of the time it drops to 2x or 1x).

I think the cause of the problem is that I have not enabled DMA for this drive. However, I'm not able to enable DMA for this drive in Windows XP (I have installed this CDROM as a slave in my secondary channel) -

I go to the Device Manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
-> Secondary IDE Channel
-> Rt.click and select Properties
-> Advanced settings tab

I see the following settings -
Device 0
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:
:
Device 1
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Device Type: Auto Detection (Grayed)
Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: PIO Mode

Why is Windows XP using only PIO mode for this drive? Is there any way to change it?

I would really appreciate some help as it takes 5 mins+ to rip one song!

 

[Peter]

The drive might not even support a DMA mode ... or it supports just legacy DMA modes, no UDMA. As far as I've seen it, Windows XP doesn't use any DMA modes below UDMA33.

regards, Peter

 

[fade2black]

The drive supports ULTRA DMA 33 & PIO MODE 4 according to the spec.

The Afreey website is down for some time, so I'm not able to get any tech support from them.

Any ideas?

 

[bacillus]

try removing the secondary channel in device manager then reboot.
windows will re-enumerate the channel & hopefully put your drive in dma mode!

 

[fade2black]

Bacillus, it worked! Thank you.

I uninstalled the secondary IDE channel, and I rebooted the m/c. It still showed me the drive mode as PIO mode, however, I selected the transfer mode as 'DMA if available', then I clicked on the 'Driver' tab -> Update driver -> Install software automatically.

Windows said no new driver available, but the transfer mode was now refreshed to 'Multi word DMA mode 2'.

I'm now getting 16x transfer rates. Much better!

 

[bacillus]

nice