How can I enable DMA on my CD-RW Drive and IDE Controllers?

[whazzzdat]

How can I enable DMA on my CD-RW Drive and how can I get the Device manager to show that DMA is enabled for my IDE controllers"

In another thread I have been told to:

“Go to control panel, system, hardware, device manager. Look for the IDE controllers and check their properties, all channels should say DMA if available. If anything says PIO only, change it. You have to right click on the ide channels and choose properties and then click on advanced settings, this is how it works on my windows xp.”

I have followed these instructions but when I get to properties there is no "advance settings" tab for me to click. So I can't change to DMA on my CD burner.

The BIOS is set to enable plug and play.
The BIOS has no way to set my CD-RW drive to DMA

There is nothing on my Device Manager to say if anything has DMA enabled or not and PIO is not mentioned either.

The Configuration Tab on Nero Info Tool Says:
Primary IDE Channel
Master: LG DVD ROM DRD8160B
DMA on
Slave: CD-RW CRX230ED
DMA off
Secondary IDE Channel
Master: IC35l060AVV07-0
DMA on
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Motherboard Intel Desktop Board D850EMV2 based system
OS version Windows XP version 5.1 Service Pack 1 build 2600
OS memory 523,552 KB RAM
Processor Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
Bus speed 533 MHz
L1 cache Data Cache 8KB, Execution Trace Cache 12K Micro-ops
L2 cache Advanced Transfer Cache 512 KB
Form factor ZIF Socket
Stepping 4
Physical memory 512 MB RAM
Memory speed PC800
Memory type Other, RAMBUS
Form factor RIMM
BIOS date 04/17/2003
BIOS size 512 KB
BIOS version P25 (MV85010A.86A.0069.P25.0304170949)

[spyder003]

No advanced tab... When you go to the Properties of your IDE controller, you should see Primary and Secondary controllers as applicable. You can change the transfer settings from there.

[whazzzdat]

Thank you for the help spyder003, but I still can’t change the transfer settings.

It looks like this on my Device manager:

IDE ATA/ATAPI Contollers
Intel(R) 8280 1 BA Ultra Controller
Primary IDE Channel
Secondary IDE Channel

I have right clicked and selected properties for each of the above but no where on the 3 tabs that come up (General, Driver, & Resources) is there anything that will let me change the transfer properties.

[glc]

When the Intel Application Accelerator is installed, the advanced tabs go away - and the controllers are supposed to default to DMA automatically.

One thing I see - you have the hard drive on the secondary and the opticals on the primary. This is backwards. Fix this, making sure the hard drive is on an 80 wire cable on the primary IDE on the end connector jumpered to cable select (refer back to the other thread where I just clarified your response to this issue) - and the opticals can be on either a 40 or 80 wire on the secondary IDE, jumpered appropriately.

Take care of this, run the nero info tool again, and report back with its configuration.

Deciphering the jumpers on that IBM/Hitachi drive can be confusing.

http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/suppor...d120gxpjum.htm

If you are unsure of how to set them, look at the chart and let us know exactly how it's jumpered now.

[whazzzdat]

Thank you very much glc! I am amazed by your expertise. You have made my day.

Yes, it has an IBM/Hitachi HDD and I installed Intel Application Accelerator.

I am going to start to work on it in tonight following your instructions and checking the Hitachi HDD diagrams.

This computer has been slightly buggy ever since I bought it already assembled from www.cyberpowersystem.com in July of 2002.

I always suspected something was set wrong because the computer never gives out any beep codes when it shuts down.

I sent the computer back once shortly after I bought it to Cyperpower Systems but they would not fine tune it and seemed not to give a care as long as it was still running.

[whazzzdat]

I still have a problem. Nero Info tool is still showing CD-RW DMA as off.

Nero Info tool is now showing my HDD as on the Primary IDE Channel.

I followed GLC's instructions and changed the jumpers on my HDD to cable select and pluged the cable to the HDD into the Primary IDE position on the motherboard. I plugged the cable that connects my optical drives into the Secondary IDE Posistion on the motherboard.

Can someone please tell me how to enable DMA for my CD-RW drive?

Here are the new readings from Nero Info Tool:
Interface Information
Adapter 1
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Description : Primary IDE Channel

Driver
Description : System32\DRIVERS\IdeChnDr.sys
Company : Intel Corporation
Version : 2.3.0.2160, 10/01/2002
Description : Intel Application Accelerator Driver

Attached Devices
Description : Master: IC35L060AVVA07-0
Type : Disk Drive
DMA : On

Adapter 2
---------
Description : Secondary IDE Channel

Driver
Description : System32\DRIVERS\IdeChnDr.sys
Company : Intel Corporation
Version : 2.3.0.2160, 10/01/2002
Description : Intel Application Accelerator Driver

Attached Devices
Description : Master: LG DVD-ROM DRD8160B
Type : CD-Rom Drive
DMA : On
Autorun : On
Description : Slave: SONY CD-RW CRX230ED
Type : CD-Rom Drive
DMA : Off
Autorun : On


Software Information
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Operating System : Windows XP Home Edition (5.01.2600 Service Pack 1)
DirectX : DirectX 9.0b

[glc]

Found out something yesterday - NOW uninstall the Intel Application Accelerator. Had the EXACT SAME issue with a D850EMV2L board, uninstalling the IAA fixed it. The secondary slave DVD burner wouldn't turn DMA on till I did this.

[whazzzdat]

Thanks GLC, that fixed it. As soon as I deleted the Intel Application Accelerator my Nero info tool showed my CDRW to have DMA enabled.

I guess microsoft has a flaw in the program. Do you think the frame per second rate on video game will decrease without the Intel Application Accelerator?

[glc]

Not a clue, I'm not a gamer. All it does is supposedly cut down boot time and speed up hard drive access.

http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/cdrw.htm