I think you are right! I recently had to do a clean reinstall and I can´t remember if I did select drives DMA after that or not. But DVD´s DMA I just found not selected, so probatility is high that I didn´t. But now I leave the hd in the dock. Its much cooler there (handwarm instead of burning hot) ...

Maybe interesting, many TP2x being sold now second hand. I have a TP 21 and a docking station 2631. Upgraded to 1GHz, 512 MB, USB 2.0 by pc-card, video in by pci-card in the dock. Nice machine now, only the hd is a bit slow... So I bought a new HD (Hitachi Travelstar 7K2 60), and for preparing I put...