DMA enable for 440bx win98?

[littleberry]

I have a 440bx chipset (I/0 chip=intel 82351EB) with
a dual boot (win98se and win2k). On win2k, dma is
enabled and my DVD reads TWICE as fast as in win98se,
where there is NO TAB for "advanced". I couldn't find
any INTEL driver for the 440bx chipset for win98 - does
anyone know better? The list of chipset "families"
were 820 and higher - none for 440. Or should I use
the 820, since my Intel I/O controller is 82351EB?
Confusing to me. Since Win2k goes so fast (same system,
same DVD), I assume my hardware supports DMA access - so
what do I need from Intel (or whomever) to get DMA
for win98 - VERY CONFUSED OVER HERE.
(my mbaord is the supermicro P2SBA).
H E L P
Littleberry

 

[Crashman]

LOL, no drivers are needed. You simply open up system properties/device manager, drop down the drives menu, go to settings, and check the "DMA" box. You have to do this for every IDE drive you want to enable DMA for.

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[littleberry]

Thankyou, Crashman, it was simpler than I thought.

However, even after I checked DMA (and rebooted and it
was still checked), the transfer rate from my DVD
to my harddrive is twice as slow under win98se as
when I do the same transfer under win2k. I can't see
how checking DMA made any difference in the speed.
Is there any way to figure this? Why would win2k
be over twice as fast than win98se (dual boot system -
everything exaclty the same)?

Dumbfounded here,

Littleberry


oops. I had checked the wrong one -
now it does work and at the same
fast speed as win2k. Littlberry

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by littleberry on 01/28/04 03:58 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[Crashman]

Really hard to say. But since the on-chipset IDE controller only supports ATA33, if you REALLY wanted reasonable performance I'd suggest an ATA100 or ATA133 PCI card.

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