DMA no active on HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD

[Chuck Swiger]

Angka H. K. wrote:
> Ah sorry I missed that, it's looks like the problem. Sadly I never 
> change the cable sice I bought this.
>
> How do I verify what was reported by Linux and Widows ? Thay said my 
> drive is using dma.
>
> DMA33 can use 40pin cable, isn't it ?

Yes, you should be able to do DMA33 with a 40-pin cable, but you're 
almost certainly going to be better off replacing it with a newer one.  
The FreeBSD ATA driver code tends to be conservative in these cases 
because some systems/CD-ROM-like devices will fail to do UDMA33 reliably...

-- 
-Chuck