DVD ROM / IDE Problem (5 IDE devices)

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Ian Bowden

I have recently installed a second hard drive. I have
reinstalled Windows XP and now my DVD ROM will not
respond to any media. I did read on one of the Knowledge
Base that the problem might be that I now have 5/IDE
devices and that Windows XP only supports 4? I have 2 X
hard drives 1x DVD RW, 1 x DVD ROM and 1 x Floppy drive.
Can some one please point me in the right direction on
how I can reconfigure the system? Any help will be
greatly appreciated.
 
Floppy drives are NOT ide devices 99% of the time. I have 3 cd/dvd/ drives
and four hard drives on one of my pc's using a promise SATA controller for
the drives running XP.

JoBo
 
Ian said:
I have recently installed a second hard drive. I have
reinstalled Windows XP and now my DVD ROM will not
respond to any media. I did read on one of the Knowledge
Base that the problem might be that I now have 5/IDE
devices and that Windows XP only supports 4? I have 2 X
hard drives 1x DVD RW, 1 x DVD ROM and 1 x Floppy drive.
Can some one please point me in the right direction on
how I can reconfigure the system? Any help will be
greatly appreciated.
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Since your problems began when you installed another IDE widget,
you should check the cabling and the jumpers on that IDE bus.

I'll guess that the DVD was set as the master and the HD you
installed was also set as the master, and no IDE can serve
two masters <g>. There are other ways to mis-cable and/or
mis-jumper, so double check everything.
 
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