have a problem with DVD Shrink that says...the recorder does not support this type of disc...i have contacted the manuf of my drive and they have sent me documents on dma going to pio...i understand this...however i run windows xp home and in the device manager, i have no advanced settings tab to change to dma...how can i do it??? im thinking bios but i dont understand it...can u help??? also if anyone knows of firmware updates, i have a digital research technologies 8x dvd rewritable drive...or can u harass them for help too???
You're in the wrong place. This is for DVD recorders that replace your VHS video. This question should be under PC hardware - DVD Rom drives. However, The answer for DMA/PIO modes is to navigate to device manager, find the tree for IDE/ATAPI controllers, expand the tree and uninstall the secondary IDE controller. When you re-start XP it will automatically replace the tree you got rid of and it will switch on DMA mode automatically.
my primary controller sometimes slips into pio mode, i just uninstall the driver and reboot and it goes back to dma mode.
i know this isnt the place but...ive tried removing from device manager...removing from computer...uninstalling...bios...all of it
