Hello,
Well, I followed all the advices i found here and on other CD/DVD forums but my brand new Pioneer DVR-109 is stuck in Multi-word DMA mode 2 (only in Windows though, because the BIOS recognize the drive as ATA-66!)
So, to resume:
- I flashed the firmware to 1.40
- I have a 80 pin cable (I even swapped for another and same thing). Even tried a standard cable: BIOS says "ATA-33" but windows stuck again at Multi-Word!
- I deleted several times the DVD and the IDE channel in device manager
- I tried some registry tricks documented on this forum
- Jumper on the drive is set correctly (master). I even tried in Cable select but no change
- I installed the latest 4-in-1 drivers for my chipset (Via KT133A).
- The drive is alone on the cable (no slave device)
- I have the latest BIOS for my mainboard
- I know that' not a good thing but I tried the drive on my integrated Promise controller to look for a difference of speed. The results in Nero CDCHECK (reading a DVD-R) were about the same on Promise or on standard IDE. Each time, the burst speed was around 13 mb/s... Ouch!
The guy where I bought it says to me on the phone: "You have an old chipset so it is surely a compatibility problem. Anyway, with that chipset, you won't be able to go more than 8x". Why then my HDD (on IDE1) is set to UDMA5 in the BIOS and in Windows and transferring at 45mb/s ?
I don't know what to think or what to do now. The thing that bug me the most is the fact that the BIOS set the drive correctly but Windows refuses to do the same.
Ah, I also tried the VIA Miniport drivers (to replace the Microsoft generic ones) and I have the choice to update the drive in UDMA66 with this driver but applying the changes and rebooting does nothing again!
So, any solutions other than returning the drive and picking one from a different brand...
My machine:
MSI K7T Turbo LE (Via KT133a chipset)
Athlon XP 1600+