DMA on DVD Drive...

[Nilsen]

I can't seem to enable the DMA on my DVD drive. When I loaded the 4-in-1 VIA drivers, it gave me an option to enable DMA. When it finished, my DVD drive disappeared. I could not find it in "Windows Explorer" or when clicking on "My Computer."

I then scrapped everything, re-formated, re-loaded Windows 98 SE(this is a newly built PC) and re-loaded the 4-in-1 VIA drivers not enabling DMA. I then went to manually enable DMA. The hard drive worked fine. When I clicked the DMA flag on my dvd drive settings, it didn't update. When I finally did get it to keep the update, the drive disappeared again. It does not show up under "Windows Explorer," when clicking on "My Computer," or in the device settings.

Not sure what to do next. The DVD Drive I'm using is the EPO 16X DVD drive. It does say it has Ultra DMA support on the box. (not sure if that helps any)..

Thanks for any help...

Nilsen

 

[ramani]

HI
This is the problem of not having applied the 4-in-1 driver of via chipset. Also, i have noticed that thi happens, if the DVD and the harddrive use the primary single cable. If you connect Primary cable to harddisk and use another cable from secondary to DVD drive, your problem will go.

Another way is to apply the 4-in-1 driver, and in the place of ENABLE DMA, uncheck that. This shall be ok. You dont have to reinstall. If you only uninstall whatever via driver you installed and then istall that again, problem will be solved.

Hope this helps you ramani :-9
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com