On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 22:51:53 -0400, Stacey <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>D F Bonnett wrote:
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>> On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 11:03:04 -0500, "Joshua Klehm"
>> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
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>>>Sounds like you need to enable DMA.
>> Many thanks for all the responses.
>> Drives were defragged very recently. DMA is not enabled on the
>> primary or slave drive. Is there any potential downside to enabling
>> DMA?
>>
>
>Make sure DMA is enabled in the bios and the drives show as DMA drives in
>post. And no, there is no downside to DMA and gives a big performance
>boost.
Again, many thanks. On the post I see primary and slave as UDMA. Is
that it? Can't seem to find anything in BIOS about enabling DMA. I've
enabled DMA through Device Manager. When recording from now on, I'll
just leave the machine alone so as not to tax the processor.
Again, thanks to all
DFB
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