CD Burning Speed

[David E. Gervais]

I'm running WinXP Home, when I check my IDE devices it says..

transfer modeMA if available
(Current Mode:PIO)

there is no option to force DMA, I suspect it's because the BIOS has UDMA Disabled. I don't see how windows would be able to 'bypass' BIOS since BIOS is the very first thing that is loaded.

If any of you know where I should look to togle DMA on in WinXP, please let me know.

,.. I just checked my MB manual and I was wrong, when my computer boots it doesn't say "UDMA capable but not enabled." It says, "S.M.A.R.T Capable but not Enabled." Is this the thing that I should toggle on in my BIOS? Is this what will allow WinXP to use the DMA access for the HD and CD-ROM?

Thanks for any feedback, Cheers!