Re: Ide controller ? On XP Home sp2.

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"Bjarke Andersen" wrote:

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I notice in device manager that my primary IDE channel is set on DMA
mode and the secondary channel is PIO mode. Is this normal? Would it
be a good idea to change the secondary channel to DMA mode too?

It depends on the drives attached to the controller. I would guess your PIO
mode drive is an older CD/DVD drive.

Usually this is set in BIOS.

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Bjarke Andersen

How would one find out which drives are on which controllers.My laptop is
six years old. Is that too old.for DMA mode?
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