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Yep, tried it on another system and it detected it just fine with the speed being UDMA instead of PIO Mode 4.

I checked in the bios. Dell has nothing in there to adjust the hard drive or optical drive properties. Dell does not provide tools to enable or disable UDMA. I also know the speed it is operating at because windows vista tells me the speed. That's how I was able to do the comparison. I just know tha...

Is there a way I can modify the current bios (A16) for my dell inspiron 1525 to allow other optical drives besides the one it came with, to operate at UDMA instead of PIO Mode 4. I just put a blu-ray drive in there and was disappointed to see it would only run at PIO Mode 4. I tested the blu-ray dri...