what is everyones secondary IDE channel set on?

[JJ]

In device manager, then IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers

Secondary IDE Channel

what is the transfer mode set at, DMA or PIO only

Both my device 0 and 1 in the promary are set on DMA

but the device 0 of secondary is PIO only.

Is this correct?

My set up of the buses is

HD 5 Gb on Primary 0
HD 20Gb on Primary 1

Matshita 32x CDROM on Secondary 0
HP CDRW 7200i on Secondary 1

Thanx in Advance

Jaime

[John R. Copeland]

If it reverts to PIO after you try to change it to DMA, it's because at least one of your drives doesn't have DMA capability.
---JRC---

"JJ" <swo...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9te8o2$au9$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...

[Thorsten Matzner]

"JJ" <swo...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>In device manager, then IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
>
>Secondary IDE Channel
>
>what is the transfer mode set at, DMA or PIO only
>
>Both my device 0 and 1 in the promary are set on DMA
>
>but the device 0 of secondary is PIO only.
>
>Is this correct?

The same here. This controls my CD-ROM drive here, while the other
controls my two HDDs.

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(tm)

[Michael Thomas]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 20:45:53 GMT, "John R. Copeland"
<jcop...@columbus.rr.com> wrote:

>If it reverts to PIO after you try to change it to DMA, it's because at least one of your drives doesn't have DMA capability.
>---JRC---
>

Not always true. It could be a multi-word DMA device (PIO4). I have
to set my Teac CDW58e 8x8x32 CDRW to none in my BIOS (Asus P3B-f) or
windows sets it to "PIO mode only". Set to none windows XP still see
it and it comes up as "Multi-Word DMA Mode 2", and I can burn
on-the-fly.

Luckily my Afreey 52x CDROM is a UDMA drive so I can use it to boot
CD's and windows doesn't have any problems setting it up correctly.