I have the same problem too on Windows 2003 server.
I need to find a way to prevent this from happening.
If You uninstall the controller it will be back to DMA.
See IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers
Primary or Secondary IDE Channel
You may need to restart the computer twice if the System hard disk and the
DVD are connected to the same controller.
If it doesn't ask You to restart, click the Scan for hardware changes button
and You're done.
George Valkov
than 6 errors from real player saying it couldnt read the cd's. after moreQuote:> whilst saving some badly scratched cd's to my hard drive i recieved more
than 6 errors xp diables dma for the drive and reverts to pio mode. how do i
re-enable dma on dvd rom? have tried uninstalling it, and opening driver
properties for ide bus its attched to and telling it to use dma if availabe,
but dma is still disabled. any ideas on how to sort this annoying problem
would be much appreciated