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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
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Getting Back DMA For Your CD/DVD DriveI'm mostly bookmarking this for my reference, but maybe somebody else will run into this on a Google search and it might help. After struggling all week with poor DVD drive performance (DVDs were skipping really bad, data transfers were really slow, burning took forever, etc...). Come to find out that, for some reason the drive had been switched to "PIO Mode" instead of the faster DMA transfer mode. How that happened, I have no idea. I figured it happened when I upgrade the firmware for the drive last week. So switched it to use DMA if available, rebooted, and it was still in PIO mode. Removed the drive to have it reinstall/redetect on reboot, still no dice. After looking around on Microsoft's site and reading all about the CRC errors that can cause this to happen (along with a partial fix), I came across this fix as well. Did both, and am now back up with DMA mode, and everything is hunky-dorey. 3 CommentsMe said on 08/08/06 @ 05:43 AM:Maybe you already know this, but this is one of the reported side-effects of having the copy protection system Starforce installed. If you want to check, go into the Device Manager, tell it to 'Show hidden devices', then the Starforce drivers should be under the 'Non-Plug and Play Drivers' category. Jake said on 08/08/06 @ 07:16 AM: Never had heard of the Starforce drivers, but they weren't installed (just looked). Neil T, said on 08/14/06 @ 12:40 PM: Jake - I've also had this problem before, where DMA is mysteriously disabled. StarForce never touched the machine, thankfully. Post a comment |
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