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That might be the problem. I've checked my settings and all of them is DMA.
Maybe you could uninstall the secondary ide channel and reboot your
computer. It should redetect it and you could check again to see if the
secondary device 1 settings are still grayed out.
Also, if your CD/DVD drives are on the same IDE cable, make sure one is set
to master and the other one is set for slave.
Newtechie
"sport888" <sport888@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Newtecie,
> Here is what I found.
>
> PRIMARY
> Device 0
> Type: auto detect
> Transfer mode: DMA if available
> current transfer mode ultra DMA mode2
> Device 1
> Device type: auto detect
> transfer mode: DMA if available
> current transfer mode: not applicable
>
> SECONDARY
> Device 0
> device type: auto detect
> Transfer mode: DMA if available
> current transfer mode: not applicable
> Device 1
> Device tyoe: is greyed out
> transfer mode PIO only
> current transfer mode: PIO mode
> Current transfer mode: not applicable
>
>
> "Newtechie" wrote:
>
>> Hi Sport,
>>
>> Look in the Device Manager, and check the IDE/ATA ATAPI controllers and
>> check the properties of both the primary and secondary IDE channels.
>>
>> Newtechie
>>
>> "sport888" <sport888@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news
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>> > When I try to burn a CD or DVD I get an Alert saying MyDVD has detected
>> > that
>> > DMA is turned off for one or more recording devicesattached to the
>> > system.
>> > In
>> > order to successfully write to the device , DMA should be turned on.
>> > When I checked the hardware properties it has DMA is assigned.
>> > Where else can I check to see if DMA is turned on or off? I have a sony
>> > DRU-530A DVD±RW/±R/CD.
>>
>>
>>