About IDE port Connection

[arios2mx]

Hi!

PC specs:
Mb:Asus A7S333, Kingstone DDR 256Mb, Maxtor 80Gb 6Y08OLO
Cdrom 56x Aopen CD-956e/akv, Video Card Winfast A250UltraTD
Sound Blaster Live!

I'm really confused, Should I install my hard disc and cdrom drive in the same Ide port (IDE1), using an 80 pins IDE Cable?
Should I configure the using Cable Select option on the rear side of my IDE devices or Should I use master/slave configuration?

Yesterday I installed these devices on the same IDE cable HD was configured Master and CD waS configured Slave.

So I installed WindowsXP Pro, All drivers everything was ok

I bought Rainbow Six 3 Raven Shield, I installed I was playing it for alost 1 hour, everything was fine.

I restarted my computer with the rainbow six 3 second disc inside my cdrom (it is protected with safedisc 2.8), The windows Xp start up was delayed, I noticed that my cdrom was doing some strange noise, it sounds like the lens were moving forward/backward. So I pressed the eject button My computert freezes so I restared the computer, my system was destroyed.
BUT my cdrom doesn't read rainbow six disc ANYMORE!!

This is the second cd disc drive damaged by my computer, yesterday I changed an Aopen 52x drive because of the same cause!

I forget to mention Rainbow Six 3 is ORIGINAL.

Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance!

Alex

 

[braddds]

Your setup sounds fine but as to what's happening to the cdrom drives is a bit baffling.

The only suggestion I could give is that you may have the boot sequence in your bios set to cdrom first and hard drive second...check this and rearrange - it may stop your problem during bootup with a disc in the cd drive. Though this shouldn't be a problem as the cd has no boot software and should be rejected for XP on the hard drive.

Bit of a puzzler, I guess it's possible that you got two bad drives (cdroms). Perhaps you should setup the hard drive on IDE1 and cdrom on IDE2 both as masters (unless you have other drives, in which case modify as needed).

Can't really say if this will help but it's worth a try. If your cdrom no longer works in this or any other configuration it'll have to be replaced. Also I'd try a different brand name of cdrom drives. Sorry I wish I could be more helpful

Cheers

Thx to all who respond

 

[wolluf]

If you've only got one hard drive and one CD/DVD device, put them both on separate IDE connectors (both as masters) - you only share a connection when you have to.

Putting them both on same connector shouldn't cause major problems (just slows things down and adds contention between the devices - just possibly could cause problem if load on both was very heavy).

 

[arios2mx]

Hi, Thanks

I am sure that my cdrom devices were working fine, When I installed that program my system was working fine, My computer takes 2 seconds to accept my cdrom disc like a valid program, How do I know that? It shows the game's logo when I pressed twice the game's icon then I dissappear then the game is loaded, but since I restarted my computer with the game disc inside the cdrom drive I takes almost 10 or 15 seconds to read the protection on the disc and inside the cdrom drive it sounds like the cdrom disc couldn't be able to spin correctly or at the correct speed, I mean it sounds like if it were starting to spin several times.
I would like to know if a protected game could cause such damage or maybe I am dreaming.

I forgot to mention thatr my system was installed yesterday, all my hardware is microsoft certificated, I am not running directx9, I am using directx8.1b I only have installed windows Xp Pro and Rainbow Six 3.
My doubt resides if I am using a harddisk with Ultra-DMA/ATA 100, my hard disk is working at maximum speed, So if I installed a Cdrom with UDMA/33 technology Does my IDE bus adjusts speed to the lower device I mean My cdom reduces hard disk' speed?
At the moment I installed Harddisk(Master/IDE1) Cdrom(Master/IDE2), but I am planning to install a cd/rw and a dvd/rom, So I am looking for the best configuration.


Thanks
Alex

 

[wolluf]

As long as both devices are at least ATA33 (UDMA/33), the slower one will not affect the speed of the faster (assuming 80 pin cable & mobo support of course). If PIO mode device is one of the two, both will run at its (slower) speed. However, CD/DVD devices are inherently slower than hard drives (and work differently) - so IMO its best to avoid pairing a hard drive with an optical drive if you can avoid it.

I've got no idea why you've had 2 CDs die on you (may just be bad fortune - they're not the most robust of devices - I've replaced more of them than any other component).