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June 16th, 2004, 03:43 AM
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Re: CD Burning Speed
Narf:
Scroll down a few Posts to find the procedure. It is on the first page as of this posting.
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I don't see how windows would be able to 'bypass' BIOS since BIOS is the very first thing that is loaded.
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Windows, Linux, BSD, etc. all ignore half of the BIOS settings, especially related to IRQs and such, once the OS is booted. It does not bypass it, it just uses its own values for some of the settings once loaded. |
June 16th, 2004, 03:46 AM
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Re: CD Burning Speed
SMART has nothing to do with DMA. Its a hard drive monitoring tool that is supposed to detect drive failures before they get serious.
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June 16th, 2004, 05:28 AM
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Re: CD Burning Speed
David, please check if you have the latest MB drivers installed, I've seen such effects on newer mb when no proper chipset drivers were installed.
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June 16th, 2004, 10:02 AM
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Re: CD Burning Speed
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Yep, sounds like that standard 2000 pitfall. DMA is, for reasons unknown to everyone except probably the crazy mind of the antichrist B.G. himself, default OFF in 2000 after the installation.
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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. |
June 16th, 2004, 11:25 PM
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Re: CD Burning Speed
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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Narf:
Scroll down a few Posts to find the procedure. It is on the first page as of this posting.
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Thanks. DMA was on anyway. 
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June 18th, 2004, 09:05 AM
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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...
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