problem with dvd drive access

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » June 21, 2005, 4:46 pm

I have not been able to figure this one out. Hopefully one of you can help.

I'm havign a problem accessing my DVD-ROM and DVD-R drives in programs that access the drives using ASPI (specifically, Audiograbber and Nero 6). For some reason the drives are not in sync with their drive letter enumeration.

Here's the configuration:
IDE0: null/null
IDE1: DVD-ROM slave / DVD+-RW master
SATA0: WD 120 gb hdd
SATA1: WD 120 gb hdd

The problem started when I temporarily attached two old ATAPI hard drives to the unused primary IDE channel to copy the contents to my new SATA hard drive. After that, Audiograbber didn't recognize that there was a disk in the DVD-ROM drive, but when I switched the source drive in Audiograbber to the DVD+-RW drive it read the disk in the DVD-ROM drive. Nero doesn't recognize the DVD+-RW drive and thinks the DVD-ROM is the burner.

So far I have reformatted my boot partition and installed a clean copy of XP Pro, and tried deleting the drivers for both drives in Device Manager and letting Windows re-recognize them on restart. Neither solved the problem.

Can anyone assist? Is the system getting confused because there's no devices on the primary IDE channel but there are 2 on the secondary channel?

As always thanks in advance

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » June 21, 2005, 4:55 pm

why nothing on the primary IDE channel?

am i missing something?

Kilmoll the Sexy · Post by **Kilmoll the Sexy** » June 21, 2005, 4:59 pm

Just throw the DVD ROM on IDE-0 and the burner on IDE-1 and jumper them to cable select. Make sure to change your BIOS settings to auto for both.

Tenuvil · Post by **Tenuvil** » June 21, 2005, 6:00 pm

That's exactly what I did Kilmoll, but rather than cable select I jumpered them both for master on their respective IDE channels. That seems to have resolved the problems. Thanks!

Voro: this setup was kind of a legacy from when I had 2 hd's on the primary channel and 2 optical drives on the secondary channel. Never bothered to split the drives off to their own channels.