bios nor windows see's my two dvd drives

[Guest]

using intel mobo, with a new dvd writer on ide primary and an old dvd reader
on ide secondary.

They both worked upon installation of the new one. I was installling the dvd
software that came with the new one (pioneer) and the system crashed, so i
removed it and tried again, well it was working right this time everything
going good and it crashed again. This time upon booting up windows did not
see either drives. restarted and went into bios, it does not see any of the
two drives either.

I reinstalled the ide controllers, primary and secondary etc, tried a system
restore to the day before, shut down the computer and unplugged the ide then
restarted, shut down and plugged them back in, but still no drives.

I Then went into event viewer and looked through the system log and found
this:

The device 'HITACHI DVD-ROM GD-7500'
(IDE\CdRomHITACHI_DVD-ROM_GD-7500_________________0007____\5&4d9cff&0&0.0.0)
disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

The device 'PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-109'
(IDE\CdRomPIONEER_DVD-RW__DVR-109_________________1.17____\45_044423043313238315538204a202020202020)
disappeared from the system without first being prepared for removal.

Those are both of the drives and now i can't get them back any idea's?

 

[Guest]

also tried add hardware, but it doesn't detect the drives either.

 

[Jerry]

Newer DVD and CD drives have firmware that can be flash updated. Check the
manufacturers web site for any that may pertain to yours.

 

[Guest]

last attempt before trying to reinstall, i unplugged the secondary ide and
the primary showed up, everything seems to work just fine on the primary, but
nothing will work with the secondary plugged in. So i am now running both on
the primary cable on cable select.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

Have you set the jumper and connect it properly?
i.e., Jumpered master to be connected to the secondary IDE channels as master
and jumpered slave connected as slave to the 2nd IDE channel.

However, I would suggest you to jumper both optical drives as cable select
and then use a 40 Pin 80 wired shielded IDE cable to connect them.
Note: If you are using a 40 Pin 40 wires IDE cable, you must jumper the
drives as matser & slave similtaniously and connect them as master and slave
correctly.

BTW, I would connect the DVD player as master and the DVD R/W as slave.
As the DMA mode for DVD player is UDMA 4 to 5 and the DMA for DVD R/W is
udma 2 . It general practice, always connect the faster drive as master.

Peter