My suggestion would be to set the HDD as primary master, the CDRW as
secondary master, both drives using 80 wire cables and both set to use DMA.
While you're at it, uncheck 'Disconnect', which is only for SCSI devices.

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul"
> Hi I have a question regarding the DMA setting in Win 98SE.  I have a
> Western Digital hard drive with ATA100 ,is it necesary to checek the DMA
box
> in the properties box to get the full power of the ATA or is it overkill ?
> I would rather enable DMA for my CD ROM on the same channel.  My system
> setup WD 30GB ATA 100 primary master 52X CD ROM primary slave 8X2X32X
writer
> secondary master.

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