CDRW & DVD drive not working

[Guest]

Hello,

I am unable to get my CDRW and DVD drives to work. They worked before I
reset my bios. Now when booting I get the error : Sec Master ATAPI
Incompatible and Sec Slave ATAPI Incompatible Press F1 to continue.

After booting into Windows XP, I can see both drives in My Computer, both
appear as CDROM's and niether will read a cd, It takes a long time to read
the disk, then I get an error: Disk is not accessable, The disk structure is
corrupted and unreadable.

I am going out to get another IDE cable, to see if that is the problem. I
have tried switching the drives from Masters to Slaves and even Cable Select
(although I don't think the IDE cable will work with CS). In the BIOS I have
tried Auto, ARMD, and Not Installed, and pressing Enter to Auto detect
(showed up as ARMD).
I have also tried disconnecting one and booting with just the other drive.
Neither works by itself either.

Please help!

Thanks muchly.

JJ

 

[Guest]

BTW, I can see both correctly in Device Manager, checked the drivers as well
and both seem up to date.

 

[Harry Ohrn]

check the Problem's section here http://aumha.org/win5/a/xpcd.htm

 

[Plato]

I am unable to get my CDRW and DVD drives to work. They worked before I
reset my bios. Now when booting I get the error : Sec Master ATAPI

I am going out to get another IDE cable, to see if that is the problem. I

Why mess with hardware and potentially opening up yet another can of
worms when the thing you did was software/firmware related?

 

[Guest]

Plato you are absolutley right, I am just out of options. I have tried to
upgrade the firmware, but it does not take. Could it be due to Nero? I
removed it, but it still doesn't seem to matter.