DVD Hardware and DMA

[nick1gbr]

I have a DVD drive for my computer, i have a cinemaster dvd hardware card, which i would like to use (just because i have got it) everytime i install it i cannot get any sound.
My cinemaster drivers (for xp) say the tab for the DMA mode for the dvd drive needs to be ticked but i cannot find it.

i want to use the card and drive in my second machine with a built in video card that cannot cope with the dvd without the hardware card.

I had this problem when running windows 2000 pro and never found a cure.

Please Help

 

[Lonman]

What are the exact model numbers of your card and dvdrom? Did these come as a bundle, or purchased separately?

 

[nick1gbr]

Both the drive and card are from a Dell computer... A friend gave them to me.

The card is a Cinemaster c.3.0 rev 1.3

the drive is a Toshiba SD-M1212


I had this problem under Win ME but it rectified itself when i put a tick in the dma box for the dvd drive.

Windows autodetects the cinemaster card and puts WDM drivers in for it.

Nick

 

[Lonman]

It looks like everything is supported in XP. Check it out:

http://www.eyescream.se/~niclas/dvd/cinemaster/hardware.htm

here's a link to the Ravisent site (manufacturers site):

http://www.ravisent.com/

They don't give up any XP information though, but the first link provides good info. Good luck.

 

[nick1gbr]

Thanx I'll have a look

Nick

 

[Qumahlin]

what you need to do is goto your device manager..open up the panel for ide controllers, choose primary or secondary depending on which your DVD drive is on.

and then goto the advanced options tab and make sure that the options are set to (use DMA if available mode) that way if the drive supports DMA winXP will automatically enable it..hope that helps 🙂

 

[nick1gbr]

Thank you, seems to work ok...

Sems that was the problem with my cdrw too 😀

Cheers

Nick