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"Craig Dubal" <dubalc@europa.com> wrote:

>It is. otherwise it'd be slowwwwwwwwwwwwer-- I've turned Ultra-DMA off on
>mine - and if yours wasn't using it - you be quite upset at how slow it is
>in comparison.
>
>NoFear wrote in message <6dl15d$ekb$1@titan.globalserve.net>...
>>I have a western digital caviar 6.4 GB hard drive (wdc ac36400L).  I was
>>wondering how I know if my drive is using UDMA or not and if not how to get
>>it to.  In device manager under disk drives I have GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE47,
>>and in that the only DMA option is DMA (it is checked).  Under Hard Disk
>>Controllers I have the following:
>>-Intel 82371AB PCI bus master IDE Controller
>>-Primary IDE controller (dual FIFO)
>>-Secondary IDE controller (dual FIFO)
>>As well I have a p2 266 with the 440LX chipset
>>

Also, the bus mastering drivers need to be loaded for the controller,
which it is in your case.  What can make the system slow is also the
loading of real mode drivers in autoexec/config files.  This makes it
very slow.  You can also check the DMA option in the harddrive tap of
device mananger.  It should be under setting, you can also do that for
the cd-rom in some cases.  I have had problems with some older
machines running with the DMA checked, but you should be able to go
into safe mode and uncheck it.