Activate DMA mode for IDE controller

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  1. Anthony says:

    @Marc – The article is up and I added the link to the bottom of the article.

  2. Marc says:

    Thanks Anthony. I’ll wait fro the link!

  3. Anthony says:

    @Marc – Not all controllers support this option. It also depends on the driver, but it could be the controller does not have the option, or the DMA is already turned on without a way to manually control it.

    One more thing you can try is to enable the write caching and enhanced performance on the disk drives itself. I’ll put up an article on the and link to it from here.

  4. Marc says:

    Hi Anthony,

    Need help!I’ve Windows Vista 64 bit on a Sony Vaio FW 248J – 4 gig – 500 gig SATA drive. I’m trying to activate the DMA box on Vista but I cannot find it! When I go to Device manager, I first click on IDE ATA/ATAPI then Intel(R)ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller and finally I right click on properties. At this point, I’ve looked all over for “the Advanced tap” to get into the DMA box and I cannot find it! I only get four boxes -General, Driver, Details,Resources- Thanks for yor help. Marc

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