Re: CD Burning Speed
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">This is also true in Win98 and presumably is OFF for compatiblity with "legacy" hardware. Often Windows will tell you that the drive is running in "DOS Compatibility mode" if this setting is off, but should be on.

Then again, it might've just been this crazy Dell. I don't *remember* ever turning DMA on for my other machine's hard drives, which are definitely UDMA.

Re: CD Burning Speed
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Thanks. DMA was on anyway. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Re: CD Burning Speed
 

Having your CD drive running in PIO mode would definitely explain those slower burnning times... but then again don't expect to get too much faster burn times... the 40x or whatever specificaiton is mostly insignificant nowadays as the drives are spinning the disks so fast that any faster and the media itself starts to break apart.....

The procedure for turning on DMA is the same as I described earlier in the post (and written looking at the settings on an XP home laptop)... In my experience i can't recall any BIOS settings required for DMA mode... but then again I could be wrong...

even linux requires you set it in the OS and not through hardware toggles...