CD rom detection problem

[Guerreiro]

hello all...

Ok, this is my question:

I´v bought a new motherboard (Biostar m7viw) ans a 1700+ AMD processor...

The problem is that the motherboard doesn´t recognize the cd-rom and cd-rw in the secondary ide.. i´v correctly set the cd-rom to master and the cdrw to slave(i think it´s the correct way to do it....) but still doesn´t recognize them...
i´v tried the cd rom and cd rw in the primary ide and they work just fine... so i think the problem it´s on the secundary ide...

Any help oin this... should i change something in the motherboard or in the bios?

txs for any help on this...

(sorry for my bad english)

 

[SESaskDFC]

Howdy:

Go into BIOS and make sure all IDE detection is set to "auto".. Then, change the cd-rw to master and the cd-rom to slave !!

Murray

 

[Guerreiro]

ok... i´ll try it... i will say something l8r.... txs

 

[sukhvinder]

I would like to know , that in addition to the CD-ROM and CD-RW if i have 2 additional hard drives also, how to do the allocation on the primary and secondary channels.
Is this right ?
Primary Master - Ist Hard Disk
Primary Slave - IInd Hard Disk
Secondary Master - CD -RW
Secondary Slave - CD -ROM
Thanks a lot !

 

[Peahippo]

People tend to move data as CD<->HDD, hence putting them on different cables is probably the fastest data transfer infrastructure. So, your arrangement seems OK ... but, you might consider:

IDE1: Master HDD1, Slave CDROM
IDE2: Master CDRW, Slave HDD2

... if you are going to try doing CDROM->CDRW transfers a lot. I've seen plenty of CDRW manuals that state that the CDRW unit shouldn't be a slave drive.

 

[sukhvinder]

Thanks a lot Peahippo for taking out time to write in.

Finally the arrangement i have done is :
Primary Master - CD-RW
Primary Slave - CD - ROM
Secondary Master -HDD1
Secondary Slave - HDD2

As yet things seem to be working fine.
But does anyone have any idea of any possible hazards of this arrangement???
I will be highly indebted to the same.
Thanx and Rgds