I have been reading on the forum about changing over to DMA especially in the last post but i cannot find it anywhere on my system, i have wimdows ME and have gone into the device manager and cannot find anything it takes about 3 hours from start to finish to copy a movie and to me that is slow compared to you other guys. I use Dvd shrink and nero 6 Packard Bell 1000 512 ram freecom external dvd writer 40gb dvd rom samsung 612 memorex cd writer twelve maxx 1032 Any help would be appreciated on finding this dam elusive DMA Regards Eldon
I have only a faint recollection of using ME but this may help. Go to the Device Manager. Open IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Right-click and choose properties for Primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE Channel. There will be an option under "advanced settings" for DMA and it will tell you what mode you are currently running in for each drive on the channel. Select "DMA if available" for all of your drives. If you restart and Window still reports them in PIO mode, check your BIOS to make sure transfer modes are all set to Auto or forced to DMA.
Hi Nephilim Thanks for your reply i still cannot find the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers in the device manager. Under the hard disc controllers i have primary and secondary ide controller (dual fifo)which you cannot cahnge to anything and under disc drivers i have generic disc type 47 when i go into settings i have a tick in DMA and that is all nothing about the primary and secondary channel maybe i should just do away with this ME and get something else. Regards
I think in ME you go to device manager, right click on your cdrom or dvdrom, then settings, then check the dma box. The only other place to check is to go into the bios settings at startup. Jerry
Hi Jerry7 46 Thank you for this i found the DMA on the dvd rom drive in the device manager and have tick this, there isn't one in my external dvd writer but i have checked and it is writing at 4x speed so i am happy with that. Thank you again for your help and also Nephilim Kind Regards Eldon
My pleasure, ixtreme, even though I didn't get you far Now I have a question for all. Not having ever used an external device, would DMA even be applicable to a USB or Firewire driven device? _X_X_X_X_X_[small]Gigabyte 8INXP, Intel P4HT 3.06 Mushkin 1024 MB PC2100 Sapphire 9800 Pro Plextor PX-708A/Plextor Premium/LTD-166S M-Audio Revolution 7.1 Bald is Beautiful[/small]
Glade we could help some ixtreme. Nephilim, Thats a good question. I would think dma only comes into play with internal drives working off the IDE sockets. Only thing I can think of that might effect external drives would if USB 1 or 2. USB 2 has a faster transfer rate than 1 I think. I never used firewire so I'm lost there. Jerry
Hi Nephilim and Jerry746 About the external dvd writer i was using this on a usb1 port and the unit was running at 2x i decided to get a usb2 port and have noticed that the unit is now running at 4x will have to see if there is a difference when i next do a film Regards Eldon
Well thank you both! It makes perfect sense. I suspected as much, but then again one never knows without having used an external. Glad you're gettin 4X now, ixtreme
