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Cricket · 09-28-2001, 01:49 PM

Hi hoemee,

Are you using a 80 wire ATA66/ATA100 IDE cable with your hard drive? You'll need it if you want to enable DMA for your ATA100 hard drive (you have a IBM 40 GB right?) and set the jumper to Cable Select. CD-ROMs and CD-RW's are usually ATA33, so you would only use the older 40 wire IDE cable on those devices and set the jumper settings to Master and Slave as necessary. Don't use the Cable Select jumper setting with 40 wire IDE cables.

I've had problems with some IDE devices when I enable DMA (particularly my TEAC CD540E CD-ROM)...the drive would hang the computer when I tried to access it. With DMA disabled, the drive works fine. Try running your CD-ROM and CD-RW with DMA disabled, if your system runs okay leave the CD-ROM DMA disabled and try to enable DMA for the Plextor (you'll need it enabled to make use of the Burn Proof feature). You may also want to go into BIOS and set your CD-ROM and CD-RW to PIO Mode 4 instead of AUTO (look in "Integrated Peripherals"). Check this website for more information regarding BIOS settings: http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed...uide_Index.htm

Check out this website for help with CD-RW related problems:
http://www.cdrom-guide.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/010855.html

I'm not familiar with RAID boards, but did you install all the proper drivers for your motherboard? Are you using the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers? Is the RAID controller enabled in BIOS?

Cricket

09-28-2001, 01:49 PM	#4
Cricket Shiro Usagi Premium Member Join Date: Sep 1999 Location: Kaneohe, Hawaii Posts: 34,002	Hi hoemee, Are you using a 80 wire ATA66/ATA100 IDE cable with your hard drive? You'll need it if you want to enable DMA for your ATA100 hard drive (you have a IBM 40 GB right?) and set the jumper to Cable Select. CD-ROMs and CD-RW's are usually ATA33, so you would only use the older 40 wire IDE cable on those devices and set the jumper settings to Master and Slave as necessary. Don't use the Cable Select jumper setting with 40 wire IDE cables. I've had problems with some IDE devices when I enable DMA (particularly my TEAC CD540E CD-ROM)...the drive would hang the computer when I tried to access it. With DMA disabled, the drive works fine. Try running your CD-ROM and CD-RW with DMA disabled, if your system runs okay leave the CD-ROM DMA disabled and try to enable DMA for the Plextor (you'll need it enabled to make use of the Burn Proof feature). You may also want to go into BIOS and set your CD-ROM and CD-RW to PIO Mode 4 instead of AUTO (look in "Integrated Peripherals"). Check this website for more information regarding BIOS settings: http://www.adriansrojakpot.com/Speed...uide_Index.htm Check out this website for help with CD-RW related problems: http://www.cdrom-guide.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/010855.html I'm not familiar with RAID boards, but did you install all the proper drivers for your motherboard? Are you using the latest VIA 4-in-1 drivers? Is the RAID controller enabled in BIOS? Cricket