Secondary IDE channel detected PIO - WHY?

[pkulk]

I have an epox 8kta+ with a duron 700 in Win2k. The primary IDE channel appears to work OK (knock wood!!), i.e. detected as UDMA and HDD works fine. The secondary IDE has a CDROM and a CD-RW (Iomega12x10). That channel always shows up in PIO mode. If I choose to upgrade drivers for the channel and restart (reinstall the same driver), it shows up as DMA (and sometimes UDMA!) and later, after another reboot, goes back to PIO.

Is this a problem with the VIA drivers for KT133 or is this a problem because of the Iomega CDRW? ANd how do I correct it?

Thank you.
pk

 

[pkulk]

pls help.

 

[robg1701]

On my K7 Pro if i dont set in the bios that there is a cdrom on the secondary channel (as apposed to leaving it set as NONE, which gives me a quicker boot because for some reason it seems to take a little while to get its info from my DVD-ROM and CD writer) then win2k will not enable DMA for it....perhaps you should check that the bios has the channel set to CD-ROM.

 

[pkulk]

Thanks. Checked that. My Secondary channel is set to 'auto'. So i decided not to change it. Also, it does detect the two drives at startup.

Another thing - right now, I am seeing the CDROM (which is master) as UDMA and the Iomega as PIO! Please help!