Yamaha and PIO/DMA modes

[Tony B]

Nero's infotool reports that DMA is turned off for my Yamaha CRW-F1. I have no access to DMA modes in device manager (Win2000 pro), maybe because I installed Intel's ultra ATA driver.

Anyway, in the BIOS I noticed PIO and DMA modes were set to Auto. I changed DMA to Mode 2, leaving the PIO mode set to Auto. I rebooted but InfoTool still reports DMA is off.

Does anyone know what the settings should be for PIO and DMA, which modes (I want DMA on)?

Thanks

[cfitz]

I have no access to DMA modes in device manager (Win2000 pro), maybe because I installed Intel's ultra ATA driver.

That's normal when you have IAA installed. It removes the DMA settings tab in device manager. To enable DMA when IAA is installed you must use the IAA application.

You may want to try removing IAA if you continue to have trouble with it. A number of people have reported that IAA causes trouble with optical drives.

cfitz

[Tony B]

I have a DVD-ROM attached as master on the same cable and InfoTool reports it as having DMA on. When I ran IAA, it reported that for the Yamaha ultra DMA is enabled and current and default transfer modes are UDMA-2, but that doesn't show up on Nero's info applet.

Can I assume that DMA is actually working but Nero's infoTool is misreading things?

[cfitz]

Can I assume that DMA is actually working but Nero's infoTool is misreading things?

That's a possibility. Do a transfer rate test with CD Speed. If you can reach 44x at the end of the disc and CPU usage isn't more than 10% or so (check it with task manager while the transfer rate test is in progress), then you have DMA enabled. Or, better yet, time a real burn. The proof is in the pudding.

cfitz