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If you recall from Part 1....you should know if your DVD player is IDE (ribbon cable) or SATA (color coated thinner cable).

If you have a SATA DVD Burner and have VISTA, you want the check box that mentions DMA to be checked. If you have IDE, UNcheck this box.

If you have a SATA DVD Burner and have Windows XP, you want the settings to appear as they are below. If you have IDE, then use the pull down menu to choose an option that lists "PIO."

Click OK and that that brings us to the end.  "PIO" is for IDE Ribbon Cables and "DMA" is for SATA cables.  These things are data transfer modes and tell the computer how fast or slow to transfer Data in and out of some device (remember "IO"?)  

So now you have all the acronyms and technical information. If you want to know exactly was DMA and PIO are for educational reasons, then open up Google and surf the internet to all the definitions out there!

Good luck and have fun!