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Win2k doesn't see my DVD

Muse

Muse

Lifer
I'm multibooting Win2k SP2 and Win98SE and NT 4 SP6a and have my 2 HDs on a Promise TX2 Ultra100 controller.

Pioneer 106s DVD on motherboard primary master with ATA33 40 wire cable

Liteon LTR 24102B CDR/CDRW on motherboard secondary master with ATA33 40 wire cable
Iomega 250 Zip drive on motherboard secondary slave

Everything was fine but I swapped out the cable on the Pioneer DVD drive - put in an 80 wire ATA100 cable instead of the 40 wire ATA33 cable. Now Win2k does not see the DVD. Win98 still sees it fine.

What can I do short of going back to a 40 wire cable? As I understand it, it should work fine with an 80 wire cable. Thanks for any help.
 
Were the forums down today? I couldn't open them...

I finally got Win2k to see the DVD. IDETool could see the drive when opened in Win2k even though Win2k was unaware of it. I changed the mode for the drive from UDMA Mode 2 to UDMA Mode 4 (ATA33 to ATA66, in effect), committed the change, rebooted and Win2k saw the drive and the ATA66 setting stuck. That's what I was after, as far as the DVD drive is concerned. I still am not getting the modes I want for the ATA33 devices, though, and wonder if an ATA100 cable will let that happen. Just don't know. Don't have the cable to try with yet.
 
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