DMA on a 109 connected to an IDE PCI card

[takeaguess]

Novice here!!

Can you enable DMA to a drive that is connected via IDE cable via a IDE PCI Card.?????


Many thanks for your help.

[MasterMind]

Yes I think one can. Here's a general guide on enabling DMA in Win XP.
http://www.real-knowledge.com/dma.htm
HTH!

[takeaguess]

Many thanks m8, this guide only describes the normal way of enabling IDE devices, my drive goes through PCI. Perhaps its not possible.

[PhilEnfield]

I may be wrong here, but I dont think there are settings as such.
I think it depends on the PCI Card itself and whether it supports Ultra DMA.

Have a look on Google for your PCI Card and this should give you some pointers.

[Lazza]

Depends on the card as Phil say's, but tbh I would never run a recording drive from a PCI RAID or IDE card. Far better to run your HD's from them as they were intended for and run any CD/DVD devices from your mobo's main IDE channels.

[Van Nugent]

Yep, totally agree with Lazza. Most mobos provide at least 2 IDE channels which will handle up to 4 devices. Use them for optical drives and use the add-on IDE cards for HDs. It would work much better this way.

[takeaguess]

cheers guys, all lazyness on my part, couldnt bothered messing about with primary, slave etc.. will have to open her up and do the job properly :D