Via 4 in 1 drivers not being nice!

[hav0c]

Well I was having a problem of not being able to get my secondary IDE to work.. Well I got it working. I have a DVD drive and a CD-rw on my secondary IDE channel. I was playing a DVD and noticed it was running a little slow so I look at my DVD drive in Device manager and DMA was not enabled. I check the DMA box reboot and my secondary IDE is not working again. I reinstall the via 4 in 1 drivers with DMA disabled and my CD drives are back. I know my CD drives support DMA they worked with it in my old computer. Anyways. When I boot BIOS says my DVD drive is in UDMA33 mode and my CD-rw is in PIO4 mode. My cd-rw is master and DVD is slave. Can anyone help?

Thanks
My MB is using a KT133A chipset

[Mntsnow]

What Version of 4in1 you using?

[hav0c]

I'm using version 4.31

[TOAD6147]

Try going back to an earlier version and see if that helps.

[jokostel]

i still had problems with the 4.31 drivers myself... im running an abit kt7a..
try the 4.32 drivers from
www.viahardware.com (http://www.viahardware.com)

[hotrodder]

what works for me is downloading the 3.11
ide driver by itself and installing that
way. you can get it from the link above
at viahardware, also look for new firmware for your cdrw

[This message has been edited by hotrodder (edited 06-09-2001).]

[NDD]

What even VIA advices, is to return to original Microsoft IDE Bus Master drivers after the installation of whole VIA 4in-1 pack, just try going back to prior MS drivers and see if problem remains.

Best Regards ...

[hav0c]

Well I tried the 3.11 driver for IDE and well now windows only sees my CD-rw drive. I have tried several versions of the Via 4 in 1 drivers with the same results. I have reformatted my HD and reinstalled windows.. even the default drivers that windows installs do the same thing. Any other suggestions?

[Mntsnow]

Have you tried different IDE cables? Maybe the ones you have are not working correctly?

[smartxtai]

i personally never ever used the 4 in 1 drivers. they always seemed to have some kind of conflict with my computer and i just got fed up with it. i never need it for anything anyways. my computer runs just fine without it and you should try seeing if your computer runs fine without the 4 in 1 drivers. uninstalling it does not get rid of it from my experience. you have to reformat your hard drive.

[hav0c]

Well I got to messing around with the Via 3.11 IDE miniport driver and I was looking at the IDETOOL program that came with it.. It seems that my CD-RW does not support UDMA mode.. But my DVD drive does. when I unhook the CD-RW from the chain I can enable DMA on the DVD drive but as soon as I hook up the CD-RW windows can't see my drives. I am using a ATA66 cable and in BIOS my drives are set to Auto. Any suggestions on what to do now?

[hotrodder]

my liteon cdrw did not support udma until
i flashed with new firmware. have you gone
into the bios, try manually selecting the drive

[muno]

Doesn't using the same ide cable for devices of different speed make the faster run in slower mode? Ie. cd is pio4 and dvd udma33, wouldn't this revert the dvd to function in pio4. That's a hearsay, but if someone would be kind enough to correct me =)
-M

[hav0c]

Yeah i was thinking the same thing muno but in my old computer they were on the same IDE channel and I was able to enable DMA from windows.. Maybe it just didn't complain about it.. anyways I dunno I checked my CD-rw makers web site and didn't see any firmware updates.