CDRW and DVD-ROM not working together

[Thommo]

Until i rebuilt my PC my CDRW drive and DVD drive worked fine. (apart from
DVDs were jumpy due to the slow computer!)
- AMD K6/2 550Mhz, 640Mb RAM,

Now i have Pentium4 2.4Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 60Gig 7200rpm HDD,

The DVD drive (Pioneer DVD106s) does not work while my CD-RW (Creative
8433e?) is connected. The CDRW works fine with both connected, but in order
to get my DVD drive to work i have to disconnect the IDE cable from the back
of the internal CDRW!!!

Some technical drive stuff if anyone needs it:
I have:

IDE cable 1:
60Gb HDD set to primary master
13Gb set to primary slave

IDE cable 2:
CDRW set to secondary master
DVD set to secondary slave (tried swopping these to no avail)

Floppy on its own IDE cable

USB powered Zip drive, (if this matters) (connected to belkin 7-port hub
(powered))

I just wondered if anyone knew why my DVD doesnt work while CDRW is plugged
in?

It doesnt particularly matter as i have just bought a DVD/CDRW combo drive
52x52x24x16x from Ebuyer and getting rid of the old 8x writer, but i just
wondered why this is. (so if any1 wants either Creative 8x writer or Pioneer
16x DVD drive, let me know!)

Thanks in advance.

Thommo

 

[Peter]

Hi,

Your CD/RW is too slow. You should use the DVD drive as
secondary master.
Set the jumpers for DVD rom to master and the CD/RW rom
to slave. I think you are using 40 pin IDE cable. Make
sure the far end connetor is connected to to DVD rom and
the middle connector is connected to the CD/RW then
connect the 12V power cables to the DVD and CD/RW roms.
Boot into BIOS to ensure they appeared in BIOS correctly.
Set the DVD rom to UDMA mode 4 or 5 and the CD/RW use PIO
mode.

Hope it helps.

Peter

 

[WinXP Blues]

Hi,

What about the jumper in the back of the CDRW and the DVD,
are they set correctly? Is one set as master and the other
set as slave? Using cable select may not work in this
case. Good luck.

Sleepless