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DMA Settings on Slave Drive
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Name: Gary
Date: November 13, 2001 at 17:58:54 Pacific
Subject: DMA Settings on Slave Drive |
Comment: I recently installed Windows XP Home on a two-year old Micron system. I
installed a new 40 GB Western Digital hard drive, set it up as the slave,
and did a clean install of XP onto it. I now have dual boot capability with
Windows 98se on the "old" 20 GB drive and XP on the new Western Digital.
Both drives are set to auto-detect in the BIOS. Browsing through device manager, I just noticed the old Win 98se drive on
the primary IDE channel is set to "DMA if available" under "Transfer Mode"
and "Ultra DMA 3" under "Current Transfer Mode." The new drive with XP on the secondary IDE channel is set to "DMA if
available" under "Transfer Mode" but "Multi-Word DMA 2" under "Current
Transfer Mode." Is there something wrong with the DMA setup on the new drive? Thanks
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