CD-ROM Controller Error on P5GD1

[Neal Lavon]

Basically, I have a vanilla CD-ROM reader linked as a slave to a
Plextor 708A DVD writer master, and both linked to the Secondary IDE
channel of an Asus PG5D1 motherboard. The Plextor guide says it should
be set as master with the CD-ROM set as slave. The Plextor's firmware
is 1.08, the latest; the CD-ROM is what it is, set at what came out of
the box. The OS is Windows XP SP2. Two hard drives are master and
slave to Primary IDE channel.

The system identifies the CD-ROM and its icon will appear in My
Computer but the system will not read the contents of any CD-ROM in
the machine.I've tried two separate CD-ROM drives in the bay. The
DVD-ROM can read just fine; no problem there. Looking in Event
Manager, I see Event 51 and Event 9 and Event 11 error messages for
the CD-ROM:

IO_WARNING_PAGING_FAILURE Message: An error was detected on device %1
during a paging operation)

IO_ERR_CONTROLLER_ERROR Message: The driver detected a controller
error on %1

I've read a couple of different responses to similar questions here.
So could I ask:

a) should the two hard drives be switched to the Secondary IDE channel
which is now in IDE mode? (Asus tech support says to do this)

b) chain optical drive with hard drive to both primary and secondary
IDE channels?

This has been a real pain for me in the past several months so any
help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Neal Lavon
Takoma Park, MD
USA

 

[Hackworth]

Basically, I have a vanilla CD-ROM reader linked as a slave to a
Plextor 708A DVD writer master, and both linked to the Secondary IDE
channel of an Asus PG5D1 motherboard. The Plextor guide says it should
be set as master with the CD-ROM set as slave. The Plextor's firmware
is 1.08, the latest; the CD-ROM is what it is, set at what came out of
the box. The OS is Windows XP SP2. Two hard drives are master and
slave to Primary IDE channel.

The system identifies the CD-ROM and its icon will appear in My
Computer but the system will not read the contents of any CD-ROM in
the machine.I've tried two separate CD-ROM drives in the bay. The
DVD-ROM can read just fine; no problem there. Looking in Event
Manager, I see Event 51 and Event 9 and Event 11 error messages for
the CD-ROM:

IO_WARNING_PAGING_FAILURE Message: An error was detected on device %1
during a paging operation)

IO_ERR_CONTROLLER_ERROR Message: The driver detected a controller
error on %1

I've read a couple of different responses to similar questions here.
So could I ask:

a) should the two hard drives be switched to the Secondary IDE channel
which is now in IDE mode? (Asus tech support says to do this)

b) chain optical drive with hard drive to both primary and secondary
IDE channels?

This has been a real pain for me in the past several months so any
help or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Well, your DVD burner works fine in any case, and other CD-ROM drives don't
fix the problem. So, the very next thing *I* would do is replace the IDE
cable. It's a cheap test and it may just save you a load of additional
grief.

 

[RzB]

Are you running Raid on the SATA drives?

I was unable to make my Plextor CD Writer work
with Raid 1 running on the SATA drives. I think
due to a Shadow RAM limitation...

Roy