Forcing DMA on a DVD drive on my KT266 based board?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Revision17
  • Start date Start date
R

Revision17

I've got a Shuttle AK31 (KT266) as my motherboard (and I'm running XP
as my OS). My DVD burner (secondary slave) refused to go into a DMA
mode (I usually have these problems with a drive on the secondary
channel). I tried installing the painfully out of date (last update
was in 2000, before XP even came out) minibus drivers. I was able to
get it in DMA mode, however I couldn't use it to burn anything
(burning progs kept freezing). I've tried with the stock XP drivers
and the latest hypernions but no luck (and it's not much fun burning
DVDs in PIO mode ). Any ideas on how to fix this?
 
I had similar problems with my Intel 430TX board and both an LG CD
writer and Liteon DVD reader. The bios wouldn't set them up right.
Nor did the DOS drivers that came with them (or not).
To my pleasant surprise I found that the DOS CD-ROM driver that came
with the PowerDVD software package (that came with the Liteon) would
set both of them up right using the /DMA switch and is also accepted by
Windows 98.

I don't know where to get it as it is completely anounymous or whether
it can be used with XP. It does however say Lite-On in the code of the installation program so you could start there.

Revision17 said:
I've got a Shuttle AK31 (KT266) as my motherboard (and I'm running XP
as my OS). My DVD burner (secondary slave) refused to go into a DMA
mode
Click to expand...
(I usually have these problems with a drive on the secondary channel).
Click to expand...

So what happens if you put it on the primary channel then?
 
Back
Top