DMA settings and the advance tab for it

[Guest]

Hello, my issue is this. im tring to set the DMA settings
for my hard drives as one of them is reporting that its
off. i have done this many times.... system....device
manager primary drive properties... problem is in the
machine im working on there is no advance tab in the
primary drive properties

win Xp sp
intel celeron 2 ghz

yes i have updated bios.
i have the sp2 update on my other machine *AMD 2200+ and
its ok there any ideas ?

Thanks J

 

[Guest]

Hi,

First, boot into BIOS and check to ensure DMA mode is enabled in the Primary
and Secondary IDE channels. Make sure you are using a 80 Pin shielded IDE
cable.
If the mobo using Intel chipsets, check to ascertain whether you have
installed the Intel acceleration utility.
If yes, you must change the DMA mode setting by using this utility.
Start / All Programs / Intel Acceleration Utility

If you haven't installed this utility:

Go to Device Manager, double click the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers,
double click the Primary IDE Channel, click the Advanced settings tab,
select DMA if available in the Transfer Mode,
the Current Transfer Mode should be Ultra DMA Mode 5.

Do the same for Device 1 if you have slave drive attached.

Peter

 

[J]

Ok did all that. yes i have intel chipset and am using 80
pin cable.. i have the acceleration software install. In
the the device manager under properties there is no
advance tab. maybe when you install the Intel accelerator
it removes it from devce mamager although i uninstall the
intel untitlity to check and device maamger for the hard
drives still didnt show the advance tab to set dma.

I guess everything is ok as both drive are reported as
in UDMA mode 5. i guess it was just because the Nero Info
app reports the my secondary slave dma is not on.
still a bit puzzeling about the device manager not
showing the advance tab in the properties for each drive.

any other suggestions would be greatly apprecated and
thanks for your time and your responce

J

 

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Peter told you "Go to Device Manager, double click the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers,
double click the Primary IDE Channel, click the Advanced settings tab,
select DMA if available in the Transfer Mode,
the Current Transfer Mode should be Ultra DMA Mode 5.

Do the same for Device 1 if you have slave drive attached." Did you do that? Did you open IAA to see what is listed in it?

That is where DMA is set. There is no advanced tab in the HDD pages.

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Just my 2¢ worth,
Jeff
__________in response to__________
| Ok did all that. yes i have intel chipset and am using 80
| pin cable.. i have the acceleration software install. In
| the the device manager under properties there is no
| advance tab. maybe when you install the Intel accelerator
| it removes it from devce mamager although i uninstall the
| intel untitlity to check and device maamger for the hard
| drives still didnt show the advance tab to set dma.
|
| I guess everything is ok as both drive are reported as
| in UDMA mode 5. i guess it was just because the Nero Info
| app reports the my secondary slave dma is not on.
| still a bit puzzeling about the device manager not
| showing the advance tab in the properties for each drive.
|
| any other suggestions would be greatly apprecated and
| thanks for your time and your responce
|
| J

 

[Quaoar]

Ok did all that. yes i have intel chipset and am using 80
pin cable.. i have the acceleration software install. In
the the device manager under properties there is no
advance tab. maybe when you install the Intel accelerator
it removes it from devce mamager although i uninstall the
intel untitlity to check and device maamger for the hard
drives still didnt show the advance tab to set dma.

I guess everything is ok as both drive are reported as
in UDMA mode 5. i guess it was just because the Nero Info
app reports the my secondary slave dma is not on.
still a bit puzzeling about the device manager not
showing the advance tab in the properties for each drive.

any other suggestions would be greatly apprecated and
thanks for your time and your responce

J

Intel Application Accelerator replaces the default DMA settings since
the function of the accelerator is to optimize DMA/HD cacheing. There
are a few user settings available with the IAA applet, but none with DMA
in Device Manager.

Q