Can't enable DMA

[David]

When I go to the device manager, expand ATA/ATAPI controllers , then
highlight Primary IDE and right click and select properties, there is
no advanced tab there.

Thats where I should go to enable DMA right?

On my primary IDE there are two fairly modern Seagate ST380021A 80G
drives, one as the master and the other as slave. Nothing on the
Secndary IDE. The Seagate website lists this drive as having DMA

Also in an attemp to rule out the IDE cable, I bought a new
UDMA133/100 cable that is only 18 inches long rather than the 24
inches as was the old cable and I made sure the long end with the blue
connector was connected to the Motherboard and for the other, master
device at end, and slave 6 inches from the end. Thats the right way
isn't it?


I uninstalled the primary and secondary IDE controllers and rebooted
Windows a couple of times and still no advanced tab option in the
Device manager for me to select DMA.

Pentium 4 at 2.4GHz, Gigabyte 8IEXP motherboard, and Windows XP
Professional.

What am I doing wrong????

 

[David]

Nathan

Thanks for the ideas. I installed both the updated chipset drivers and
theApplication Accelereator buy I still can't get the DMA to appear
on the Advanced Settings tab.

No I am not operating in the RAID configuration. I just have two hard
drives. One has the operating system and programs while the other has
data.

Any more ideas? Do you think that I need to reinstall Windows?

David

 

[Nathan McNulty]

Actually, the Intel Application Accelerator controlles the DMA settings
now. But since you have two nice harddrives, you should really look at
running them in RAID. Here is a little more info on that

http://www.acnc.com/raid.html

Also, try Everest Home Edition from www.lavalys.com to see if your
harddrives are running properly

Nathan McNulty