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Sam Spade
About 2 months ago, I bought a Plextor PX-760A DVD-RW to replace an older
Plextor CD-RW.
I had zero problems with the device at first. It is the master on the
secondary channel, and it had an old Maxtor hard drive as the slave on the same
channel.
More recently, I replaced the Maxtor with a Seagate. It's jumpered correctly,
don't ask. System BIOS picks up all immediately, and identifies their
positions correctly. (HDD as master on primary, HDD as slave on primary,
Plextor as master on secondary, HDD as slave on secondary)
At first, after putting in the new Seagate, no problems. But suddenly, on any
and every reboot, two things happen (XP Pro, all updated):
1) the Plextor is not recognized by Windows
2) the hard drive light, while blinking normally during system load, hangs
continuously lit when the system is finished loading
The workaround fixes both: Device manager, scan for new hardware. Immediately
the Plextor is picked up by Windows, and immediately the drive light goes off
(back to normal operation where it only lights when there is activity).
But ... I shouldn't need to do this, obviously. Windows should recognize the
Plextor without a scan (it once did), and the drive light should not be
constantly on until I do the hardware scan.
I've been to Google hell and back on this. I can't get any satisfaction,
although I've tried a *lot* of things.
Anyone have a silver bullet for this?
Plextor CD-RW.
I had zero problems with the device at first. It is the master on the
secondary channel, and it had an old Maxtor hard drive as the slave on the same
channel.
More recently, I replaced the Maxtor with a Seagate. It's jumpered correctly,
don't ask. System BIOS picks up all immediately, and identifies their
positions correctly. (HDD as master on primary, HDD as slave on primary,
Plextor as master on secondary, HDD as slave on secondary)
At first, after putting in the new Seagate, no problems. But suddenly, on any
and every reboot, two things happen (XP Pro, all updated):
1) the Plextor is not recognized by Windows
2) the hard drive light, while blinking normally during system load, hangs
continuously lit when the system is finished loading
The workaround fixes both: Device manager, scan for new hardware. Immediately
the Plextor is picked up by Windows, and immediately the drive light goes off
(back to normal operation where it only lights when there is activity).
But ... I shouldn't need to do this, obviously. Windows should recognize the
Plextor without a scan (it once did), and the drive light should not be
constantly on until I do the hardware scan.
I've been to Google hell and back on this. I can't get any satisfaction,
although I've tried a *lot* of things.
Anyone have a silver bullet for this?