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Is there a specific sequence for IDE drives? I have placed my HD as Primary Master, my cd-rw as secondary master and my dvd-rom as secondary slave; there is nothing for primary slave. However, my dvd-rom is not recognized by the BIOS. In fact when i boot into the BIOS and try to detect it,i find it, but when i reboot it doesn't seem to exist. However, all OSes seem to find it every time. Any ideas?
there seems to be quite a bit of debate on this subject, but i haven't seen much real evidence of "the answer"
one thing of note that i would suggest, i would put one optical drive as slave on the primary, and one on the secondary chain. because of the speed limitations of optical drives (and the throughput/duplex limitations of ide), you may have issues with doing "on the fly" cd duplications with both on the same ide channel.
I have now set the cd-rw sa secondary master and the dvd-rom as secondary slave and both are been recognised fine. The opposite however (dvd-rom master and cd-rw as slave) hadn't work. Why?
On the IDE cable i am using for my optical drives, a "hard disk cable" is written as i just noticed. There is another cable with "cd-rom" on it. Have i used the wrong one? Should i change it, or there will be no difference?
Thanks
Originally posted by nocturna_gr I have now set the cd-rw sa secondary master and the dvd-rom as secondary slave and both are been recognised fine. The opposite however (dvd-rom master and cd-rw as slave) hadn't work. Why?
Did you move the jumpers on the back of the optical drives to denote master and slave?
Hmmm...
It always has been my understanding , that the best configuration would be to have each of the optical drives as a slave to a harddrive.(Two IDE-HDs-scenario)
Has something to do with posing the least risc for boot-problems , or so i'm told...
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