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How do I check to see if DMA is being used?

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oymd   03-15-2002 at 11:25:17 PM

when i go to:
System Properties > Hardware > Device Manager > IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers
primary and secondary controllers. "Use DMA if available" should be there....but its not....there is no " advanced tab"...
i'm sure i installed the chipset drivers first...then intel ATA driver...then the latest application accelerator...
so what's the problem????

running XPPro..on an ABITTH7( 850 ) 128MB..1.5GHZP4...IBM60GXP

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Rob423   03-16-2002 at 06:06:19 AM
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Maybe in your Bios you can see if DMA is enabled

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Demosthenes   03-16-2002 at 07:11:32 AM
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The application accelerator should be on your start menu. Check it to see the DMA status of your devices.

With the application accelerator installed, the DMA options are not available under the properties of the IDE channels in the device manager.

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camieabz   03-16-2002 at 03:47:19 PM
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One other way of telling is by running Sisoft Sandra on the HDDs benchmark.

Without DMA, a customer's drive I looked at was chalking up 5200 bandwidth. With DMA it went up to 36000. Needless to say, my customer was pleased.

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Anonymous   03-17-2002 at 03:01:32 AM
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The proper way to check under xp is to look in Device manager. Go there. Right click the primary or secondary controller.select properties. under the advanced settis tab. you can set the DMA settings and everything.

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Demosthenes   03-17-2002 at 03:21:15 AM
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Ordinarily, that would be true. But <b>not</b> on a system with an Intel chipset that has the Intel Application Accelerator installed, which is the replacement for the Ultra ATA Storage Driver. The version of the operating system doesn't matter, as long as it is newer than Windows 98.

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