The original DVD/CD writer in a machine is Samsung SM- 308B (might be
3088) and it appears to be without any jumper at all. Does anyone
know whether this would make it the master or the slave?

I have added an Artec DVD writer -r/+r and made it a slave and
connected it on the same cable as the samsung but on the middle
connector. The software for the new drive is My DVD and the O/S is
XP.

XP will recognise the new drive and play a DVD but it won't write to
it.

Any ideas?

Colin

On some devices, no jumper means it is set as single. If you added a slave
drive, you might need to add a master jumper.

Clark

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The original DVD/CD writer in a machine is Samsung SM- 308B (might be
> 3088) and it appears to be without any jumper at all. Does anyone
> know whether this would make it the master or the slave?
>
> I have added an Artec DVD writer -r/+r and made it a slave and
> connected it on the same cable as the samsung but on the middle
> connector. The software for the new drive is My DVD and the O/S is
> XP.
>
> XP will recognise the new drive and play a DVD but it won't write to
> it.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Colin

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> The original DVD/CD writer in a machine is Samsung SM- 308B (might be
> 3088) and it appears to be without any jumper at all. Does anyone
> know whether this would make it the master or the slave?
>
> I have added an Artec DVD writer -r/+r and made it a slave and
> connected it on the same cable as the samsung but on the middle
> connector. The software for the new drive is My DVD and the O/S is
> XP.
>
> XP will recognise the new drive and play a DVD but it won't write to
> it.
>
> Any ideas?

I can't remember the last time I saw a CD/DVD reader/writer that had
anything other than six pins -- two for Cable Select, Master, and Slave.
I have a tendancy (though not a compulsion) to collect these devices,
and of the fifteen on my shelf now, all are as described above.

Does your SM-308B have six pins, labeled in pars, as "CS", "MA" and
"SL"? Is there any sort of description of the jumper block on the
label? Perhaps if you could put up a digital picture of that block and
the label, we could read it for you?

At any rate, I don't know what the drive would default as if there is no
jumper when one is expected.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> The original DVD/CD writer in a machine is Samsung SM- 308B (might be
> 3088) and it appears to be without any jumper at all. Does anyone
> know whether this would make it the master or the slave?
>
> I have added an Artec DVD writer -r/+r and made it a slave and
> connected it on the same cable as the samsung but on the middle
> connector. The software for the new drive is My DVD and the O/S is
> XP.
>
> XP will recognise the new drive and play a DVD but it won't write to
> it.
>
> Any ideas?


In my experience, a CD or DVD device will default to slave with no
jumper ..... UNLESS you have two on the same IDE channel. In that
case you need to specify (and jumper) both devices, one as slave and
the other as master. Note, *both* devices should be jumpered.

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 22:21:31 GMT, Grinder <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> The original DVD/CD writer in a machine is Samsung SM- 308B (might be
>> 3088) and it appears to be without any jumper at all. Does anyone
>> know whether this would make it the master or the slave?
>>
>> I have added an Artec DVD writer -r/+r and made it a slave and
>> connected it on the same cable as the samsung but on the middle
>> connector. The software for the new drive is My DVD and the O/S is
>> XP.
>>
>> XP will recognise the new drive and play a DVD but it won't write to
>> it.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
>I can't remember the last time I saw a CD/DVD reader/writer that had
>anything other than six pins -- two for Cable Select, Master, and Slave.
> I have a tendancy (though not a compulsion) to collect these devices,
>and of the fifteen on my shelf now, all are as described above.
>
>Does your SM-308B have six pins, labeled in pars, as "CS", "MA" and
>"SL"? Is there any sort of description of the jumper block on the
>label? Perhaps if you could put up a digital picture of that block and
>the label, we could read it for you?
>
>At any rate, I don't know what the drive would default as if there is no
> jumper when one is expected.

Thanks for your contribution. The web site page below is the manual
for the device and it is exactly as you say above.

http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...08B_E-User.pdf

The bloke who supplied it seems to have done what he can to sabotage
any attempt to upgrade it without him. If you're right then the old
CD would clash with the new CD which is jumpered as slave also.

He had disabled all POST messages and left the BIOS pointing to the CD
as first point for boot up. The owner has no manuals or software
media so he can't even reinstall XP.

Colin