{"id":4815,"date":"2001-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/?p=4815"},"modified":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-27T00:00:00","slug":"isnt-dma-not-available-hard-drives-for-pro-tools","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetwater.com\/sweetcare\/articles\/isnt-dma-not-available-hard-drives-for-pro-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Why isn&#8217;t DMA Not available on hard drives for my Pro Tools to work properly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There can be many reasons why DMA option is not available.<\/p>\n<p>If you go to your device manager, hard disk controllers, and see Primary &#038; Secondary UDMA or UATA hard disk controller, you may not have this option available. You will need to update driver to a generic IDE controller.<\/p>\n<p>If you have the DMA option box (in the device manager, hard disks, click on one hard disk, go to settings,) but it won&#8217;t stay on or it degrades your computer&#8217;s performance, you may have one of these problems:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; a bad or failing IDE cable on that drive<br \/>&#8211; misconfigured master\/slave settings<br \/>&#8211; an incompatable drive which does not support UDMA (most above 2gigs do)<br \/>&#8211; an improper format or partition on the drive<br \/>&#8211; drive is not setup properly (or on &#8216;auto&#8217;) in BIOS<\/p>\n<p>All audio software works best with DMA enabled on all drives, especially the audio drive. 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