DMA Mode

[VirgUSA]

I have added a second hard drive and cannot get DMA enabeled on that drive. I have uninstalled the Primary IDE Channel and rebooted and Device 1 shows PIO Mode.

This is a Dell computer. I had both drives on Cable Select and changed to Master and Slave and that didn't help. Do I need to replace the cable?

I am attaching a Nero Info Tool log.

[Chewy]

check your bios settings, even if you had a cable select specific cable it should have worked with the drives so jumpered, the master goes at the end of the cable, is it an 80 conductor one?

[Chewy]

and if all else fails try the quick fix

http://winhlp.com/WxDMA.htm

[Experi-Mentor]

check all jumper settings carefully, & don't discount the fact that some hdd configurations (on the same cable) simply don't work in conjuction.
you may need to use your newer drive as master & the other as a slave (if you want them both on the primary), or use the 2ndry ide.

[VirgUSA]

I checked setup, Drive Configuration and primary slave was set to none. I changed that to Auto and I have DMA now. Thank you all for your help.