On Sunday 21 May 2006 3:41 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Yes, I checked and found that the master/slave settings were right and that the DVD power cable was a little loose. Tightened everything up again. Well both optical drives are on the same IDE channel, as they can be. The CDROM works fine but the DVD does not read from a DVD, even after delving into the box, but tries the CDROM when I add a new source from a DVD.
Another thing to try is setting both devices to Cable Select/CS and making sure the master device is at the end of the cable, the slave device is in the middle and the mainboard is on the other end of the IDE cable. I've fixed more than a few system's CD/DVD drive problems this way. I still haven't found out the magic of which mainboard/BIOS and devices actually require cable select versus master/slave. Ran out of chickens to sacrifice... Another thing to check is firmware on the CD and DVD devices. www.CDFreaks.com may have information on any firmware updates for your drives that could improve performance, allow more formats to be read/written, etc. Stan