atapi

G

Guest

hi,
can one of yall tell me about atapi compatable?
i had a sony read only cd drive, i took it out and put in a ricoh cd r/w
drive.
the machine is telling me in bios that master drive is not atapi
compatable. f1 to continue
i have 2 others i am going to try, one is a plextor and the other is a hp.
my system is a SAG with xp home on it, thanks
 
R

Rick Rogers

Hi,

Check the position of the jumper on the ricoh drive. You may have devices in
conflict (ie: two devices using the same settings), or be using MS/SL when
you should be using CS (or vice-versa).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
 
G

Guest

thanks, it was the setting, the jumper was set on slave, i moved it to
master and all is good now.
 

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