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Optical drive question

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Nick5324

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I have an old Pentium 3 Gateway machine that only has a regular CD-ROM. I picked up a CD-RW, set the jumper to slave, and hooked it up to the 2nd connector of the IDE cable used for the CD-ROM. When i start the computer, it loads windows but niether drive is recognized and niether will open. As soon as i take out the IDE cable from the CD-RW, the original CD-ROM is recognized and works fine, the CD-RW will open, but of course isn't recognized, as it isn't connected. Any ideas as to what the problem is?
 
Thanks, airfoil, I'll check when i am at home with the comp, although it seems strange that gateway would have one device and set it as slave. Any other suggestions so i can check multiple things when i get back?
 
The other thing that comes to mind is that the end of the IDE cable that you're connecting to the CDRW is messed up - if the drives are correctly set up as Master/Slave, the next thing you could do is try switching the IDE cable, switching jumpers to make one the Master and the other a slave.

I believe in the past, ODD manufacturers used to leave the jumper settings on their drives on Slave by default.
 
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