DMA - how to enable

[gordon]

Hi

Recently when i burn a cd - i get a message from NERO saying that I should
probably enable DMA on my drives.

Can someone pls tell me how to do this??

Doug

 

[Richard Urban]

Did you look in device manager at the IDE channel that your CD/DVD burner is
connected to?

Does it say that it is operating in PIO mode? This usually happens when the
burning device has trouble reading from a "defective" CD/DVD. When x amount
of errors occur, the system drops the device down one DMA point in trying to
allow correct reading of the disk. If x more errors are detected, the speed
will drop down further yet - eventually attaining PIO mode.

To correct for this, using device manager uninstall the IDE device that the
burner is connected to. Now reboot. The system will redetect the device and
all should be well.

Find out which CD's DVD's are the root of your problem - then toss them out.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Malke]

Hi

Recently when i burn a cd - i get a message from NERO saying that I should
probably enable DMA on my drives.

Can someone pls tell me how to do this??

See information here from MVP Hans-Georg Michna. He has a utility to fix
this.

http://www.michna.com/kb/WxDMA.htm

Malke