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DVD-RAMS

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 6:49 pm
by squirell man
I have an IDE hardrive and an IDE DVD-RAM. they wont run off the same IDE cable. I only have 1 IDE slot.

YES. the hardrive is on master and the DVD-RAM is on slave.
YES. the it is actually connected to the computer.
YES. I know it actually worked before.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:19 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
tryed Cable select? on both?

Re: DVD-RAMS

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:15 pm
by Foo
squirell man wrote:I have an IDE hardrive and an IDE DVD-RAM. they wont run off the same IDE cable. I only have 1 IDE slot.

YES. the hardrive is on master and the DVD-RAM is on slave.
YES. the it is actually connected to the computer.
YES. I know it actually worked before.
Worked before what? Could be the cable is malfunctioning, or one of the drive controllers on the drive or motherboard is playing up. Can you pin down anything that happened between it working and not working, in terms of hardware or software?

Clarify 'not working'. Does the BIOS pick them up, does one of them show or none of them? Does it disappear in windows only?

Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 8:19 pm
by squirell man
it wont run on that hardrive of the same IDE cable. I tried using my SATA hardrive and it worked fine.

well thanks anyway...