kinghu

I updated IDE drivers and chipset from the GA website (my motherboard is a NForce 4 GA-K8NF-9 rev 1) to no avail so i switched to the standard miscrosoft drivers (which set Ultra DMA 5 for HD and Ultra DMA 2 for DVDs) and it seems it's working now. I wonder why the actual motherboard drivers wouldn't work... I guess I should stick with these drivers now - thank you!

-the buffer is at 100% at the beginning -with the buffer to 256mb (and both my IDE channels at the max chosen by the bios) the buffer slowly goes down to 0 at 31% - same results basically -CPU usage during the burn is very low What's annoying is that with my previous motherboard (3-4 years old) and exactly the same drives, same win XP, I had perfect results, even at x16, now I don't even dare try these discs... So what i'm trying to find out is which IDE channel should i lower the transfer rate so it doesn't affect my overall system? any idea? Specs: My master HD: Seagate Barracuda ST3160023A 160 GB Interface Type: Ultra ATA/100 Data Transfer Rate: 100 MBps Now set by bios at Ultra DMA 5 - Ultra 100 My master DVD: Interface IDE / ATAPI Burst transfer rate PIO mode 4 / Ultra DMA 33 now set by bios at Ultra DMA 2 -Ultra 33 (i know it works fine for x8 if I put it at Ultra DMA 0 - tho not the last time ) I also tried with the previous version of imgburn so i guess that's the transfer between my HD and my DVD thank you!

I changed my motherboard and reconnected my drives to it. The system (win xp) selected as IDE controller mode transfer Ultra DMA2 - Ultra 33 for both my master and slave DVDs. I use my master NEC 3540 A to burn DVDs and use ImageBurn, however something was wrong: the buffer was always at 0, while device buffer was fine, and the burning was really slow, barely reaching x5 or x6 toward the last part of the burn, while the disc could -and did -accomodate x8 (which was the setting I had indicated) (verbatim) checking went fine, and the movies were fine, apparently... I checked the ImgBurn forum and they mention something like make sure you choose DMA, so I changed my settings manually and selected this time Ultra DMA 0 for transfer mode with this device. It works now, but I'm not sure why or if it's the best setting for my system. So, before I begin using this x16 DVDs (which worked on my previous system) I would like to understand why (optionally) and if I did change to the best transfer mode with this drive: here are my current options from top to bottom Ultra DMA2 - Ultra 33 Ultra DMA 1 Ultra DMA 0 (current) Multi-Word DMA 2 Multi-Word DMA 1 Multi-Word DMA 0 Pio Mode (I know i have to avoid this one) As for my HD, here's the setup: LBA (from bios), from computer management: transfer mode: Ultra DMA 5 - Ultra 100 (options checked: let bios select transfer mode, enable read caching and write cahcin) i have 1 gig of RAM, Athlon 60 3000+ motherboard k8 triton series GA K8NF-9 i have 80-conductor cable for my HD and DVD drives any thoughts? thank you