The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Unable to activate DVD-RW UDMA mode

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by polar, Oct 1, 2005.

  1. polar

    polar Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    8
    Messages:
    26
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    I have a W3N with a TSSTcorp L532A 8x DVD-RW. The drive is supposed to support UDMA2, but when I check in the device manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI, secondary IDE, it says that it runs in PIO mode even though I have selected "use DMA if available". My drive is very slow and I have problems writing DVDs even in 4x speed. I suspect it is because of the PIO mode. I have tried to change some settings in the bios under IDE-config but that had no effect. Does anyone else have this problem or do you have any ideas on how to fix it?
     
    polar, Oct 1, 2005
    #1
  2. Underpantman

    Underpantman Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    356
    Messages:
    2,073
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    This is a known issue with XP. There are heaps of posts all over the web regarding this problem. I had this issue on my desktop, and my hdd once on my lappie. It seems to come from xp having a low count level of tolerance on errors...that is once the drive in question encounters a certain number of errors it permently switches to pio mode. There are a few reported work arounds, i think from memory one of them was deleting the drive entry from the device manager, but would do a google for this issue. For me the only fix that worked was a re-install of XP.
    good luck
    a
    :)
     
    Underpantman, Oct 2, 2005
    #2