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Re: CD Burning Speed
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Re: CD Burning Speed
I noticed that when my computer boots, it says secondary IDE Ultra DMA capable but not enabled.
does this mean that I should check my bios and see if there is a toggle in there?
Just curious, it takes about 6-7 mins for me to burn a CD at 48x and judging from the Posts here it should be faster.
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June 16th, 2004, 02:33 AM
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Anyone know how to turn on DMA in XP?
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June 16th, 2004, 02:40 AM
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Originally posted by narf poit chez BOOM:
Anyone know how to turn on DMA in XP?
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Is it not the same as in 2000?
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Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
I noticed that when my computer boots, it says secondary IDE Ultra DMA capable but not enabled.
does this mean that I should check my bios and see if there is a toggle in there?
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Yes, you definitely need to enable DMA. But, do it from within Windows, not BIOS. XP and 2000 tend to ignore the BIOS at every turn (as all modern OS do).
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I've never used 2000.
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Re: CD Burning Speed
I'm running WinXP Home, when I check my IDE devices it says..
transfer mode  MA if available
(Current Mode:PIO)
there is no option to force DMA, I suspect it's because the BIOS has UDMA Disabled. I don't see how windows would be able to 'bypass' BIOS since BIOS is the very first thing that is loaded.
If any of you know where I should look to togle DMA on in WinXP, please let me know.
,.. I just checked my MB manual and I was wrong, when my computer boots it doesn't say "UDMA capable but not enabled." It says, "S.M.A.R.T Capable but not Enabled." Is this the thing that I should toggle on in my BIOS? Is this what will allow WinXP to use the DMA access for the HD and CD-ROM?
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June 16th, 2004, 03:43 AM
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Re: CD Burning Speed
Narf:
Scroll down a few Posts to find the procedure. It is on the first page as of this posting.
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I don't see how windows would be able to 'bypass' BIOS since BIOS is the very first thing that is loaded.
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Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. all ignore half of the BIOS settings, especially related to IRQs and such, once the OS is booted. It does not bypass it, it just uses its own values for some of the settings once loaded. |
June 16th, 2004, 03:46 AM
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SMART has nothing to do with DMA. Its a hard drive monitoring tool that is supposed to detect drive failures before they get serious.
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Re: CD Burning Speed
David, please check if you have the latest MB drivers installed, I've seen such effects on newer mb when no proper chipset drivers were installed.
[ June 16, 2004, 04:37: Message edited by: aiken ]
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