Dma settings when you have 2 burners

[smkymntgrl]

I searched and read some threads on dma. I'm a little confused what mine should be set at as I have 2 burners. I noticed it has doubles of the primary, secondary ides. Is this because I have 2 burners, one internal, one external?

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This is a information of the primary ide, both have the same information.

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The two secondary ide have different info on them. Heres the 1st

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Heres the 2nd

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My ? is is this the way the dma should be set. I read about one being set as the master and one the slave but I'm not sure how I tell. If anyone can help me out on this I would appreciate it!

Thanks in advance

[Chewy]

driver tab will give us some clues, prognosis is not good

[smkymntgrl]

Thanks for the reply chewey. So what is "not good"? What do you mean by driver tab?



AFAIK both burners are working OK, I haven't burnt with the internal for a while, but have been reading them, burning with external. The external was just replaced about a month ago, same burner I had previously.

[Chewy]

to the right of the advanced settings is a driver tab, that will give clues why your computer has gone schitzy? probably a funky ide driver

[smkymntgrl]

You mean the driver details? On all 4 ide , both priimary, both secondary?

I don't know very much about computers so please bear with me!

[Chewy]

one will be enough

[MikeyBK]

Looks like your single 'internal' is OK.

But is your 'external' connected via USB?

[smkymntgrl]

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How's this?

[smkymntgrl]

Looks like your single 'internal' is OK.

But is your 'external' connected via USB?

It's connected with the cables that came with the burner. USB I believe

[Chewy]

try removing both standard dual channel ide controllers and rebooting

[MikeyBK]

My ? is is this the way the dma should be set. I read about one being set as the master and one the slave but I'm not sure how I tell. If anyone can help me out on this I would appreciate it!

Thanks in advance

This is what it should look like 'if' you had 2 internal burners.


But you only have 1 internal and the other is an external

[smkymntgrl]

Ok I unistalled the standard dual channel ide and rebooted. When the computer came back up it started finding all the new devices and hardware, lots of them. When I go back to my device manager the duals are back again with the two primary and two secondary. What do you suggest now?

Thanks!

[MikeyBK]

I've never had an external burner so I would only have to guess that you would check that burners DMA setting under one of the USB device on your Device Manager.

[smkymntgrl]

How do I know which one is the external?

[drfsupercenter]

@smkymtngirl, the image quality is almost unreadable. What program are you using for saving?