Dma for dell dimension 4700 sata

Hello, I am running SJD release 2. I installed xine for wmv and dvd. The dvd plays but the video is jerky. hdparm -d1 /dev/sr0 doesn't work with "device doesn't support dma". same for the hard drive hda. In order to install and boot I have to set the bios hard drive operation (sata,pata) to "combination" or I won't see the hard drive to boot from. It will not boot with the bios drive operation setting set to "normal". I just found out from the dell site that dma will not work with the drive operation setting in "combination". The box has 8 dma channels too. Am I SOL on DMA for the dvd and hard drive with SJD on a dell dimension 4700? I saw a patch at sunsolve for dell sata devices, but the page said all the SJD patches were at the online update, so they were for solaris and I had no access to it anyways. Does anyone know of an SJD release 2 equivalent patch for this? I haven't been able to connect to the online update for the last several days, whereas a few months ago I was able to. I can get to the site to download them manually, but have no idea which one or how to search for it.

Dell's really don't mind having other hardware installed...in fact, it's actually very easy to do. In the two dells that I've owned, they both took new memory, new hard disks, and some assorted PCI cards. I'm still unsure why everyone says Dells suck with upgrading.
The fact that the problem occurred on three different computers shows me that the card is dead. I'm not surprised the card was detected on one machine, as that happened to me when my card died. Sometimes it would be detected, other times it wouldn't. Sometimes I could almost get through the driver installs, other times it wouldn't do anything.

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<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4300/specs.htm#0572"]http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim4300/specs.htm#0572[/url]
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