tourettes 0 Posted December 16, 2000 Does anyone know how to change DMA mode between 0-2 in Windows 2000? My bios doesn't allow to change them, only enable / disable. Iäm having strange freezes with Plextor 8/4/32 ide drive with DMA mode on. So mayby DMA mode 0 would work, just a guess. Share this post Link to post
Widow 0 Posted December 16, 2000 DO NOT! I REPEAT DONT SET DMA ANYTHING FOR CD RECORDERS!!!!! Go into your device manager and go to the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section go to the primart or seconday ide channel(whichever your recoder is on) and set the recoder for pio only, you won't have any more probelms after that..... Share this post Link to post
GHackmann 0 Posted December 16, 2000 Widow: This depends on the CD burner. I'm pretty sure that Plextor recommends that DMA is enabled. I know that my Mitsumi drive (don't laugh, it was cheap) works much better with DMA on. Also, the lockups may be caused by the CD-RW drive being on the same channel as another IDE drive. The best advice for a CD-RW owner is to put the drive on its own channel as master, which will help prevent coasters and strange lockups. If you don't have a free channel, then get a PCI IDE controller card and put the CD-RW on that. (As an added bonus, if you get a HPT370-based card, then its BIOS lets you set DMA mode. Don't know about the Promise ones, but I'd be shocked if you couldn't.) That said, if you have a motherboard with a Via chipset, you can get the new Windows 2000 compatible IDE drivers (link anybody?) which come with a tool to let you set the DMA mode. Share this post Link to post
Widow 0 Posted December 16, 2000 Your reply is appreciated GHackmann and that may well be the case.....I have owned and worked on at least a dozen different types of burners(includeing Plextor) and I have yet to see one reliably work with DMA turned on. Just my experience....though most of my experience is limited to via chipsets which could have something to do with it...in any case turning off dma on that particular port will have no adverse affects and should alleviate the problem......regards.... Share this post Link to post
tourettes 0 Posted December 16, 2000 I have to se DMA enabled and that's because I have only one cd-rom drive and I don't want my drive to hog nearly 100% cpu time when reading a disk. But I think I have found sollution. I have KT7-RAID and I used 106MHz FSB (8.5 multiplier) IDE was 33MHz but that matters for Plextor. Now I have 100 FSB (9.0x) and 33MHz IDE and my Plextor seems to work alright. 10 succesful test burns with those settings. ------------------ ---- Parasoul ---- http://rasta.cult.tpu.fi/~parasoul/ Share this post Link to post
euankirkhope 0 Posted December 17, 2000 http://www.soltek.com.tw/downloads/drivers/580_3011.exe Share this post Link to post
