Hi. I'm hoping someone can help me out here. I have a Western Digital Special Edition 80 gig 8mb cache hd. When I go to my device manager to check for dma status, I can't find anything there that will let me see this. Same goes for my Cd-RW. And another thing, it's listing my HD as a SCSI drive. Why is this?
I'm running windows xp pro sp1. My IDE controller is Nforce.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Maybe I'm stating the obvious here, but are you looking in the right place in device manager ? So not under the specific drive, but under 'IDE ATA/Atapi controller --> properties --> advanced settings'
Yes I'm looking under IDE ATA/Atapi Controller, then properties and when in properties, there is no Advanced Settings. Just a tab for general information, drivers and resources. There's a troubleshooting tab toward the bottom also. Any ideas?
I've looked directly under my cd-rw and hd properties and I can't find anything in any of the above that lets me check for direct memory access or even see if it's enabled. What's strange is that both my hd and cd-rw drives are listed as scsi devices. Is there perhaps some type of setting I need to change withing my os? I'm running xp pro and honestly don't know much about it yet. I't a big upgrade from win 98. Anyhow, if anyone has any other suggestions, please post.
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