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Arnado
After installing a second harddrive, I noticed it was very
slow. I noticed it was running PIO mode, instead of DMA.
After toying with it for awhile, I wasn't able to get it to
be anything other then PIO.
A friend told me he had the same problem, and when he put
the second drive as the master on the secondary ide
channel, it worked, and was able to be set to DMA.
A few tests later, I have both drives running in DMA, using
them both as master on primary and secondary ide channels.
The problem I have now, is that my cd-rw is slave on the
primary ide channel, and it will now only run in PIO mode.
The reason this is a problem, it is a 52x burner, worked
great before, now burns at around a max of 6 speed, which
is not going to work for me.
Does anyone know why I can't get it into DMA mode?
I have tried toggleing the settings in devman, as posted in
previous questions. I know it's not the problem where XP
has lowered it to PIO becuase of problems with the drive,
as just before moving the burner to the slave position, it
was working in dma mode just fine.
To me, what it looks like, is that XP is limiting any
secondary (slave) device to PIO mode.
Is this a problem with XP itself, or am I just missing
something?
Thanks,
Arnado
slow. I noticed it was running PIO mode, instead of DMA.
After toying with it for awhile, I wasn't able to get it to
be anything other then PIO.
A friend told me he had the same problem, and when he put
the second drive as the master on the secondary ide
channel, it worked, and was able to be set to DMA.
A few tests later, I have both drives running in DMA, using
them both as master on primary and secondary ide channels.
The problem I have now, is that my cd-rw is slave on the
primary ide channel, and it will now only run in PIO mode.
The reason this is a problem, it is a 52x burner, worked
great before, now burns at around a max of 6 speed, which
is not going to work for me.
Does anyone know why I can't get it into DMA mode?
I have tried toggleing the settings in devman, as posted in
previous questions. I know it's not the problem where XP
has lowered it to PIO becuase of problems with the drive,
as just before moving the burner to the slave position, it
was working in dma mode just fine.
To me, what it looks like, is that XP is limiting any
secondary (slave) device to PIO mode.
Is this a problem with XP itself, or am I just missing
something?
Thanks,
Arnado