Secondary Drives not detected

[Duyie]

I left my computer alone for two days and my computer refuses to recognize my CD-RW drive and DVD drive. I've already double checked the IDE calbes and the power cables to make sure they are in place. What else can I do and how can get my compute to detect these drives again. I also did a auto-detect of the ide drives. Thanks in advance!

 

[networkman]

In the BIOS on many boards there is an option to Disable Secondary IDE channel, or IDE Channel Enable(Primary, Secondary, Both, None) - make sure the option(s) is set correctly.

 

[sean2002]

You may also want to check the jumper on the drive and make sure the power connector is hooked up. "I made that mistake once"

 

[AceForSale]

Here is a piece of advice...... I was using windows 98 and windows 2000 and windows xp and has this problem on all 3 operating systems.

I had a DVD Player of some small time company. And i had a hewlett packard computer so i had a hewlett packard burner of 4x.

I wanted a new burner of 32x so i bought a sony and it didn't work, I changed the jumpers many ways even secondary and so forth with no luck so i took it back, I got about 4 different company burners and same problem everytime. I then called the sony company and they said that DVD players and CDR's are not compatiable all the time. And that it wouldn't work.

At this time i had a buslink 32x burner still that i did not take back, So i tried putting that one in and still no luck, So 5 in a row. I then took out the dvd player and i put the burner in as master and left the dvd player out all together and the buslink worked perfect.

So sony was right about them not compatible. I then went out later like 5 months later and bought a buslink dvd player, Same company and it worked perfect with each other.

So its just a suggestion to take the dvd player and just leave the cd burner in there just to see if it works by itself

Hope this helps,
Dave