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From: tatar on 3 Apr 2010 03:35 Windows XP SP3 I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it?
From: glee on 3 Apr 2010 10:14 "tatar" <afe(a)ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Windows XP SP3 > I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave > and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double > click on Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not > ask me to insert a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can > I correct it? I see the same here. I open My Computer, double-click my master optical drive and receive a popup message to insert disc. Double-click my slave optical drive and it just opens a folder window. My guess is that this is "normal" behaviour, at least on PATA optical drives (which is all I have here...hard drive is SATA). -- Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 A+ http://dts-l.net/
From: Etaoin Shrdlu on 3 Apr 2010 11:07 On 4/3/2010 2:35 AM, tatar wrote: > Windows XP SP3 > I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and > Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on > Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert > a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it? > > I have two optical drives on the secondary IDE channel and I get the "Please insert a disc" message for both. Have you verified that the jumpers are in the correct position on each drive?
From: Twayne on 3 Apr 2010 14:21 In news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl, tatar <afe(a)ersoy.co.uk> typed: > Windows XP SP3 > I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE > cable as Slave and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any > disk inserted if I double click on Slave I see the drive > figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert a > disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I > correct it? That's a tricky one, believe it or not. Your symptoms are mostly typical of many people, myself included, but they both work properly, right? I ordered my new machine with two optical drives installed and that machine asks you to insert media regardless of which one gets asked. They're IDE and both on one cable, but I didn't pull out the units to see whether they were slave/master/auto or what. The closest I cam on the other machine was to put them both on one IDE with master/slave settings. Anything else and one or the other drives would cause an error. Google has a lot of informaiton on this and the answer seems to depend on the cpu, chip set, IDE version and a lot of other things. I never did figure it out. I'd suggest spending some time with Google and see what you can come up with. IIRC dual was good as part of the serach terms. HTH, Twayne`
From: Don Phillipson on 3 Apr 2010 12:49
"tatar" <afe(a)ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Windows XP SP3 > I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and > Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on > Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert > a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it? The chap who assembled my custom PC in 2005 told me the Master should be the R/W drive placed at the end of the IDE cable and the RO drive should be (jumpered) Slave in the intermediate position. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |