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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
One hard disc attached to the motherboard's SATA port, and one DVD/CD
burner attached to the regular IDE port. Every so often, I check and discover that the DVD drive's controller has "fallen back" from DMA mode to PIO. I get it back to DMA mode by deleting that errant Primary IDE Channel from Device Manager and letting Windows redetect it. Eventually, though (days, weeks, I haven't figured the pattern out yet), it lapses back to PIO. Can anyone suggest what might be causing it and perhaps a cure? - Samsung 18X DVD+-R DVD Burner IDE Model SH-S182M/BEBN - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA - ASUS P5L-VM 1394 motherboard - Windows XP Pro, SP2 |
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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
Among other possible fixes, try replacing the drive cable (use
good quality 80 conductor UDMA cable, not 40 conductor). "Nil" wrote in message ... One hard disc attached to the motherboard's SATA port, and one DVD/CD burner attached to the regular IDE port. Every so often, I check and discover that the DVD drive's controller has "fallen back" from DMA mode to PIO. I get it back to DMA mode by deleting that errant Primary IDE Channel from Device Manager and letting Windows redetect it. Eventually, though (days, weeks, I haven't figured the pattern out yet), it lapses back to PIO. Can anyone suggest what might be causing it and perhaps a cure? - Samsung 18X DVD+-R DVD Burner IDE Model SH-S182M/BEBN - Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD2500KS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA - ASUS P5L-VM 1394 motherboard - Windows XP Pro, SP2 |
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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
On 15 May 2007, wrote in
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt: Among other possible fixes, try replacing the drive cable (use good quality 80 conductor UDMA cable, not 40 conductor). Good idea - I hadn't considered that. That will be an easy test to make. Thank you. |
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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
It could be that Starforce cd/dvd protection software is installed on your
system via any paid software installed! http://tinyurl.com/fj2p5 -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
On 16 May 2007, "ASI Industries"
wrote in alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt: It could be that Starforce cd/dvd protection software is installed on your system via any paid software installed! http://www.glop.org/starforce/remove.php I've never heard of that one before. I see no sign of it on my system (unfortunately, in a way, since that might have been The Answer), but I'll watch out for it in the future. |
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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:35:44 -0500, Nil
wrote: One hard disc attached to the motherboard's SATA port, and one DVD/CD burner attached to the regular IDE port. Every so often, I check and discover that the DVD drive's controller has "fallen back" from DMA mode to PIO. I get it back to DMA mode by deleting that errant Primary IDE Channel from Device Manager and letting Windows redetect it. Eventually, though (days, weeks, I haven't figured the pattern out yet), it lapses back to PIO. Can anyone suggest what might be causing it and perhaps a cure? Yeah, if you have errors reading with the dvd, windows automatically downshifts your dvd drive to PIO mode. DVDFabdecrypter, which has a free version you can download, has a nice button in the settings section to "reset DMA". Saves you a bunch of time. Helps with troublesome scratched disks that won't read right. Another example of microsoft never fixing it's problems even though it has had all the time in the world and all the resources to do so. |
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DVD won't stay in DMA mode
NOT Billy wrote in message ... On Tue, 15 May 2007 19:35:44 -0500, Nil wrote: One hard disc attached to the motherboard's SATA port, and one DVD/CD burner attached to the regular IDE port. Every so often, I check and discover that the DVD drive's controller has "fallen back" from DMA mode to PIO. I get it back to DMA mode by deleting that errant Primary IDE Channel from Device Manager and letting Windows redetect it. Eventually, though (days, weeks, I haven't figured the pattern out yet), it lapses back to PIO. Can anyone suggest what might be causing it and perhaps a cure? Yeah, if you have errors reading with the dvd, windows automatically downshifts your dvd drive to PIO mode. DVDFabdecrypter, which has a free version you can download, has a nice button in the settings section to "reset DMA". Saves you a bunch of time. Helps with troublesome scratched disks that won't read right. Another example of microsoft never fixing it's problems even though it has had all the time in the world and all the resources to do so. That would be a drive problem NOT windows or MS. |
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