DVD-ROM / CD RW / HD Drives

[Guest]

HI I have a DVD Rom, CD RW and HD in my P
The DVD drive will not work as a slave to the HD or RW. it only works as a master on its own IDE cable
It worked as a slave under Win98_SE but after upgrading to XP Pro I have to run it as a maste
I would like to use the CD RW as a Master on it's own cable and the DVD as a slave to the HD so as I get better data transfer speeds when writting to CD's
I have of course tried getting all updated drivers even for the Bios and IDE controller

Any sugestions?

 

[Guest]

better to keep the cd and dvd together, the dvd will slow the HD down.

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

Check jumpers at the rear of the optical drives. Sounds as if you have them
set incorrectly.

HI I have a DVD Rom, CD RW and HD in my PC
The DVD drive will not work as a slave to the HD or RW. it only works as a master on its own IDE cable.
It worked as a slave under Win98_SE but after upgrading to XP Pro I have to run it as a master
I would like to use the CD RW as a Master on it's own cable and the DVD as

a slave to the HD so as I get better data transfer speeds when writting to
CD's.

 

[Cari \(MS MVP\)]

No, it won't.