CDRW problem

[dprocket]

What is the proper way to install 2 CD RW drives? I have an ABIT KD7 mobo and currently have my two CDRW drives set to secondary master (Pacific Digital Mach 52) and slave (Cendyne, Lite-On drive). For some reason, my slave drive works great, but the master CDRW drive is very flaky. Occasionally, it has burned CD's, but mainly they system is not able to read content off the drive. Also, ussually when I try to burn a CD using this drive, I get a message saying that the disc is either no blank or an invalid format. I can then use the same disk on the slave drive with no problem whatsoever.

So, is this a case of: stupid drive, stupid human, or other?

Do I have it installed incorrectly or is the drive maybe just faulty?

Thanks.

 

[Zepper]

For some reason you can get drives that just won't play well with others. Try them one at at time as Secondary Master, stand-alone. If they both work fine set that way, then try them in the opposite order to now (just change jumpers).
. If you can't get them to work together whether M/S or S/M. Then try one as Slave to your hard disk. For best performance, only record cross channels. For best, no-compromise performance, buy a PCI UATA controller (Silicon Image based are about $20. works with any mix of drives or as RAID).
. When you do that, you can disable your Secondary on-board channel to free up IRQ 15 and you will have three UATA channels while using only 2 IRQs!
.bh.
:sun: !