How to enable DMA under Win2K

[Lissa]

Since updating Win2K with all the service packs and the
security upgrades I can no longer find how to enable DMA
access for HDD's and optical drives. It used to be that
there was an option to "enable DMA when available" as
shown in article 247426. However, this is no longer
applicable.

Any and all help would be very much appreciated.

Best wishes

Lissa

 

[jai]

Windows 2000 makes enabling DMA easy:
Go to Programs | Administrative Tools | Computer
Management.

Then open the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers tree the right
pane and double-click on the Primary IDE (or Secondary
IDE) Channel.

In the dialog that comes up, select the Advanced Options
tab at the top. You will see a dialog similar to the one


Under Transfer Mode select DMA if available. *Notice that
I didn't have DMA enabled on MY box.
You can do the same to any DMA capable devices on your IDE
channels, which used to be just newer hard-drives, but new
CD-Rom drives these days are also capable of DMA, so if
your hardware is DMA capable, make sure you enable DMA to
get the most out of it.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Since updating Win2K with all the service packs and the
security upgrades I can no longer find how to enable DMA
access for HDD's and optical drives. It used to be that
there was an option to "enable DMA when available" as
shown in article 247426. However, this is no longer
applicable.

Any and all help would be very much appreciated.

Best wishes

Lissa
.Go to the Google site and type in enable DMA in win2k.

This will tell you that by default it is disabled in win
2k. just right click mycomputer and select manage and
select device manager, under IDE of the device where your
drive is primary or secondary and again right click it a
window will pop up and set the transfer mode to dma and
select ok. Should work. Cheers Stan