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05-19-2004, 11:05 PM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sedro-Woolley, WA
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|  IDE controller morphs to PIO from DMA Windows XP Pro SP1 on computer listed below. Noticed my Plextor 708A DVD burner was starting to burn at 1x speed instead of the normal 4x speed for DVD-R media. Nothing has changed as far as I know...same media...same burning software (Roxio DVD Builder)...same system (no new installs). When I checked the IDE controller setting in the device manager (advanced settings) I saw that the secondary channel (which the Plextor is the master of) was listed as PIO instead of DMA. I switched it back to DMA and now it burns as 4x. What could have caused this change? I did a deepscan for viruses and spyware and adware and found nothing. Weird. Any ideas? Thanks!
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05-20-2004, 12:27 AM
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| Registered User  Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Mumbai - India
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| I have seen this drop from DMA to PIO when the CD/DVD reader has a problem reading a particular disk and you insert this flakky disk a few times and if Windows can read the disk at a slower speed then the speed is automatically dropped to PIO by Windows. And this affects the writing speed too. I found the best way to get the speed back to DMA was to delete the IDE Channel in Device Manager to which the CD/DVD drive is attached and then reboot for it to get reinstalled. Just my $0.02 |
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05-20-2004, 11:14 PM
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| Registered User Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Sedro-Woolley, WA
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| Ahh...that makes sense. But I don't recall having any problems reading a disc with that drive. Maybe just one of those fluke things. I didn't delete the IDE Channel...I just changed it back to DMA from PIO and it fixed the problem. Thanks for the reply.
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05-20-2004, 11:58 PM
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| Yes, I am better than you  Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Winter Park, FL
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| Once Windows detects 6 continuity errors on the drive (it won't tell you when it encounters one) the channel gets kicked back to PIO. Keep an eye on it; it could switch back again (or it just could've been a bad disc) |
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