Anyone manage to enable DMA on all their hard-drives on ABIT-ST6/ST6RAID?

False Christian · Feb 15, 2002

I have 2 hard-drives. One is a Fujitsu 10.8GB UATA66 and has DMA enabled and the other is a 40.9GB Fujitsu UATA100 drive from which I cannot enable DMA.

The big drive is so slow it's ruining my computer experiences.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Trashcan · Feb 17, 2002

UDMA works fine on my ST6-R. I only have UATA66 drives but they report a correct UDMA-4 in Intel Application Accelerator.

But I can't confirm if UATA100 works. Are they on the same IDE port/80pin cable?

False Christian · Feb 17, 2002

Enabling DMA on ST6.

My 40.9GB UATA100 drive is detected properly in the BIOS and it uses the same 80-pin connector but I can't enable DMA for the life of me!!!

Sempei · Feb 17, 2002

My ST6-Raid has a DMA33 CDRom, DMA33 CD burner,Atapi zip drive and IBM 40G DMA100 hard drive connected. Windows XP detects all DMA's correctly for me. Are you slaving anything off your DMA100 drive? People have said this may affect the master drive however I am slaving my zip drive, which operates only at PIO, off of my DMA 100 drive and it is still detected correctly. What OS are you using?

False Christian · Feb 17, 2002

UATA100

I have my 40.9GB Fujitsu UATA100 drive by itself as the Master on the primary IDE channel. I'm currently using Windows ME.

Sempei · Feb 18, 2002

Just checking to make sure, but have you installed both the ATA utility and the INF utility that came on the CD with the ST6-Raid? I think ME may have had built in support for DMA66 but not DMA100.

False Christian · Feb 18, 2002

I loaded the .inf utility but the UATA storage rivers crashed my hard-drive.

Sempei · Feb 18, 2002

I don't think you can get DMA100 without the drivers installed. Have you checked both Abit and Microsoft for updated drivers or maybe a FAQ on driver installation?

Sempei · Feb 19, 2002

Yesterday I installed the Intel Application Accelerator which is the replacement for the Ultra ATA driver. Maybe you can download that and see if it will let you install.
http://support.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/
Some way you need to get that driver installed to get the DMA100. Let me know how you make out, we'll get it working correctly somehow.

False Christian · Feb 19, 2002

UATA100

Apparently my drive had a pin missing so Fujitsu is replacing it and I'll have DMA enabled after all.

Thanks for the help, everyone!

Anyone manage to enable DMA on all their hard-drives on ABIT-ST6/ST6RAID?

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