cdrom with cdrw conflict

[cwbymike]

I have been trying to get a cdrw to slave off my cdrom, but when both are plugged into the ide, neither is recognized. the cdrom is an adapi and the cdrw is the creative 4.2.24x

 

[ANFPS26]

Did you set the jumper on the CD-RW to slave. Is the CD-ROM jumper set to master? "A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....."

 

[bluescreen77]

...or, "clearCMOS" first (check the BIOS settings) and then set both devices to "CS" (cable-select)

 

[Mulga]

For some reason some CD-RWs will only work as masters, try it as the master and the CDROM as the slave All things are possible except skiing through a revolving door.

 

[denodave]

I would also try both on cable select. I have had many odd hardware issues where lack of an actual harddrive caused similar messes. Email me! denodave@yahoo.com
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[pudda]

What brand of computer are you using? Had an issue with a Gateway2000 that had to have the secondary controller disabled in the BIOS (yah, sounds stupid) before the machine would even boot! Had a CD-ROM as Secondary slave, added a burner as Secondary master. Tech support said to do it even tho it didn't make sense- and it worked! Win98 picked the two up as D: and E:. Never ran across this with any other type of machines- the Secondary just disappeared along with the drives.