Thanks to both of you for your valuable replies!
@ xen-uno:
- Playback Mode was already DirectSound.
- The slider does not seem to have any influence on the problem.
- “DMA, if available” pointed me the right direction towards a solution. My drive did unfortunately remain in PIO mode even with “DMA, if available” set.
@ Crossy:
- In my case the chipset is an Intel, processor is a Pentium 650MHz (not overclocked).
My IDE configuration first looked like this:
- Primary channel, Slave: HDD
- Secondary channel, Master: DVD-ROM drive
No other IDE devices.
(There are also SCSI HDDs.)
I have then read in other boards about HDDs that will remain in PIO mode instead of DMA.
I tried the following things suggested there without any effect:
- find a pin at the HDDs IDE socket, which may be damaged
- swap the IDE channels used by the drives
- use a different IDE cable
- uninstall the IDE channel connected to the HDD and reboot
But none of these actions led to the HDD running in DMA mode.
The solution:
In an old posting of some board I read the suggestion to change slave/master. Now I had:
- Primary channel, Master: HDD (instead of slave)
- Secondary channel, Master: DVD-ROM drive (unchanged)
In my eyes (non expert) it shouldn’t matter if the HDD is master or slave (at least as long it’s the only device connected to that IDE channel), should it?
Anyway I’m glad that everything works fine now.
Thanks again for your help!
cu, joecool