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How to enable DMA mode in Windows 95 or 98

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

How to enable DMA mode in Windows 95 or 98

Have u managed to enable dma in windows 95 on larger drives?
I have a intel tx board and tried enabling dma on a 20gb quantum and a 40gb wd,both ide 100 drives and in both cases,after i enable dma and restart,the hard drive disapears from disk drives in device manager and i get an exclamation mark next to primary ide controller,hard drive is conected as master on primary ide.
Dma works on intel tx becouse both the cd-rom and an older 1,2 fujitsu hard drive pio4, allow me to enable dma without any issues.
I think maybe it has something to do with the larger size of the 2 harddrives.

I had a similar issue with the Gigabyte 586ATX. The only drive working with DMA was a 4 GB microdrive, but that one is so slow, DMA makes no sense. A 20 GB IDE and my usual IDE to SATA adapter wouldn't work...

I wouldn't worry about it. With a fast drive, even without DMA, things should feel quite fine. Especially on Pentium machines. If you want to use faster / newer / bigger drives then a newer boards seems to do the trick. Or go with an SIS chipset board, have good experiences with it.

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127 GB / 128 GB / 137 GB maximum hard drive capacity in Windows 98

I would use BHDD 3.1 for Windows 95/98. No space wasted. 😀

Firtasik wrote:

I would use BHDD 3.1 for Windows 95/98. No space wasted. 😀

Could you tell me more about this?

EDIT: Ok seems to be an unofficial patch of some sort. Not really my thing...

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Weird thing,after i disabled dma from bios(after watching your video),the error in windows 95 device manager disapeared,after reanebleing from bios the error is back,seems as long as the drive works in pio 4 mode dma it's fine.
I have to measure which 1 is faster pio 4 with dma enabled or udma 33 with dma disabled from device manager.

They are likely the same performance...

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote:

They are likely the same performance...

Measured with SiSoft Sandra 99,pio 4 with dma enablet is a bit faster then udma 33 and dma disabled.

why are all the videos removed?

cdoublejj wrote:

why are all the videos removed?

Hi!

I've started a new channel and moving videos across. Many I want to redo in better quality. Details in my signature!

Hey,

Is there a way to see your early MS-DOS TIme Machine build videos? They all seem to be office, from build log 1 and back….

I want to see those videos as I have seen logs 2 and 3, but am missing your proc and mono choices...

Smack2k wrote:

Hey,

Is there a way to see your early MS-DOS TIme Machine build videos? They all seem to be office, from build log 1 and back….

I want to see those videos as I have seen logs 2 and 3, but am missing your proc and mono choices...

Hi!

These videos had extremely low views 🙁

Might be easier to start a thread and ask specific questions. But I might do a new video summarising the findings if that helps. But not sure when...

You can check my new channel, there are two build videos that might help.

Low views?

That blows….those were some good info..

Can you go over the full hardware specs of your time machine?

Yes it seems the only decent views are game review type videos. I'm just reassessing the whole thing.

This thread has some infos: Phil's DOS 386/486 Time Machine

Also check out Artex's thread here: Artex's Build of the Week: Time Machine

Personally, who gives a shit who views and doesnt view it..

Your time machine videos were awesome...is there anyway to get a dl of them? I really wanted to see that again as I am going to build my Time Machine here soon..

Do you still have and use yours?

My current machine is exactly like in that thread I linked above 😀