multi word dma mode 2 ??

07-17-2003, 06:37 AM

Yep, when I upgraded from 98 to xp the dma bios settings were ok - set
to Auto. When doing a clean install of xp I had to set it to "none"
to get dma to work. Must be a bug in xp....

Forrest

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On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:09:23 -0400, "TomG" <tgeery-NOSPAM-@cox.net>
wrote:

>it is weird... we have seen the setting of None actually FIX issues with DMA
>and, of course, we have seen that setting cause issues with DMA.
< snip >

ianr666 · 08-06-2009, 05:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marcus

I have just done a Windows reinstall and when I was checking the settings in
device manager I noticed that the secondary channel in the ata controllers
is at Multi-Word DMA mode 2, this is a sony CDRW drive, the primary channel
has a Sony DVD rom and it is at Ultra DMA mode 2.

Should my CDRW drive also be at Ultra DMA mode 2 or is Multi-Word DMA mode 2
OK, I have not noticed it before but the CDRW drive is fairly new.

Thanks

MArcus

I had this after my graphics card died. Restored a full partition but this had no effect. The solution for me was to reset the CMOS. Once done I just had to check the BIOD setting were OK. This put it back to UDMA 5

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