Here are the stages leading to the problem:
1) Bought a computer that had a 32x mitsumi cdrom drive, all working fine. (factory set it up so that cdrom was Master and shared IDE cable with ZIP drive)
2) Later installed a cdrw drive along side the existing drive. The cdrw shared the IDE cable with the hard drive. Both drives worked fine at this point too.
3) then tried to remove the old mitsumi drive and just use the cdrw ( so used the mitsumi connections and hooked them up to the cdrw, freeing the rewriteable from the hard drive's IDE cable). When i rebooted, the computer recognized that there was one cd drive and even knew it was a cdrw, but I could not acces the drive or play music, etc (computer gets really slow when cd placed in tray). I thought there might be a problem with it, so I removed it and put the original mitsumi back in (using the same connections as before). The computer again recognized that the mitsumi was back in, but I still could not access the drive.
I have installed cd drives before and it has been easy. I then tried to use the drivers from mitsumi's page (dos based drivers, I think), but they don't work either. Now I'm not sure what my autoexec, config.sys, system.ini should look like, and I can't get either drive to work. What should BIOS say?
Any help greatly appreciated.
1) Bought a computer that had a 32x mitsumi cdrom drive, all working fine. (factory set it up so that cdrom was Master and shared IDE cable with ZIP drive)
2) Later installed a cdrw drive along side the existing drive. The cdrw shared the IDE cable with the hard drive. Both drives worked fine at this point too.
3) then tried to remove the old mitsumi drive and just use the cdrw ( so used the mitsumi connections and hooked them up to the cdrw, freeing the rewriteable from the hard drive's IDE cable). When i rebooted, the computer recognized that there was one cd drive and even knew it was a cdrw, but I could not acces the drive or play music, etc (computer gets really slow when cd placed in tray). I thought there might be a problem with it, so I removed it and put the original mitsumi back in (using the same connections as before). The computer again recognized that the mitsumi was back in, but I still could not access the drive.
I have installed cd drives before and it has been easy. I then tried to use the drivers from mitsumi's page (dos based drivers, I think), but they don't work either. Now I'm not sure what my autoexec, config.sys, system.ini should look like, and I can't get either drive to work. What should BIOS say?
Any help greatly appreciated.
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