DVD writer drive and 48x CD rom drive settings?

[Guest]

I have two optical drive on my computer a DVD writer drive and a CD-rom
drive. I notice lately that my cd-rom has been reading cd too slow.
I've check Nero Info tools and here is the setting for my optical drive:

Secondary IDE Channel

master: DVD Writer
DMA on
Autorun on

Slave: cd-rom Drive
DMA off
Autorun on

is the DMA in the cd-rom drive suppose to be on? or is this setting right?

 

[Richard Urban]

DMA should be ON for both units. It has likely dropped back into pio mode
due to reading errors. This is the default for Windows XP and can not be
changed.

Go into device manager and uninstall the ide channel that the optical drives
are connected to (hopefully they are both on the same channel). Then reboot
and allow the system to redetect the IDE channel. The drives should both be
in DMA mode again - till the next time you try to read from a defective
disk.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Guest]

Instead of doing that can I just go to the Secondary IDE Chanel properties
and changes the Device 1 ( i think it's the cd-rom drive) transfer mode to
DMA if available?

Here's the setting forSecondary IDE Channel properties
Device 0
Device type: Auto Detection
Transfer Mode: DMA if available
Current Transfer Mode: Ultrat DMA Mode 2

Device 1
Device type: Auto Detection
Transfer Mode: PIO Only
Current Transfer Mode: PIO Mode

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Pls act as advised by Richard.
In addition to that, I would suggest you to place the CD-rom as master and
the DVD writer as slave as we should always put the fastest drive as master
and the slower drive as slave. The UDMA mode for your CD drive should be UDMA
mode 5 (if you jumpered and connected it as master) and the DVD R/W is UDMA
mode 2.

Hope it helps

 

[Richard Urban]

I assumed that you had already "tried" to do that, before you even posted
your question. (-:

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!