IBM and DMA

[breed33]

I have an IBM 60GB ATA 100 drive and in Windows 2000 I want to have it setup as DMA. The IDE controller is set to DMA if available, but it only uses PIO mode. Is there a way to force it to DMA? Either in the BIOS or in Win2K?

Any help would be great.

Brian

PS It works on DMA in Windows 98 no problem

 

[mpjesse]

You have to have DMA drivers for Windows 2000... yes windows 2000 is plug and play- but not like 98 and Me. Unlike 98 and Me, you have to install specialized busmastering drivers/software for 2000/NT. You should be able to find them on the net.

-MP Jesse

PS, do you mean it uses PIO in the BIOS or Windows?

 

[Guest]

Go to
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/storagedrivers/ultraATA/

You'll get the point once you're there ...

 

[breed33]

Here's the thing though in my system. I have two IBM drives. One is a 13.1GB ATA 66 drive and the other is a 60GB ATA100 drive. They both are on the same 80 pin cable. The 60GB drive is the main drive (which is partitioned into a couple of drives) and in the primary IDE settings it says that DMA is enabled, but it is opting for PIO mode.

I installed the ATA drive from the CD that came with the motherboard (Asus CUSL2). So I think I already have the driver installed that is linked to from Olegis's post.

In the bios I am not sure how to change or update this stuff. For my 60GB drive is says it is using UIDMA 2 and 5 and for the other drive it is using UDMA 3.


Thanks for the help.