CD Writer seen as CDROM in XP?

Alex

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1st Sep 2003

Make sure the cdrw is on its own ide channel, does not
like sharing ide channels.
I had the same problem, got a seperate pci ide card to
resolve the issue totally.

>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>Hopefully someone can help me, this is driving me insane.
>
>I have an MSI MS-8348 48x16x48x speed CDRW drive, and
Windows will only
>recognise it as a CDROM drive, so I can read cds but not
write them.
>
>What can be done?
>
>TIA
>
>
>.
>

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