[Tfug] DVD-RW part II

[Predrag Punosevac]

Dear Earl,
Thank you so much.
The pins on my DVD-RW are set for slave. I really doupt that setting them  
to center or master would make any difference.

Now I do not know if you missed this line
but the hard-drive and DVD-RW are set on different IDE controllers.
Hard-drive is on the master IDE controller apparently with capacity UDE 66  
and
DVD-RW is on the second slave IDE controller which has UDE capacity of 33.
Due to the box configuration (mini ATX) there is no chance unless I get  
some custom cables
to have both DVD and hard-drive on the same IDE controller.


The other DeLL computer which has DVD-R which works flawlessly had both  
hard-drive and the DVD-R on
the same IDE controller but as I said earlier it has different BIOS.

Thanks
Predrag


On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 07:38:28 -0700, Earl <earljviolet at juno.com> wrote:

> Well, if it can RW, the pinning is probably OK, but here goes.
>
> Looking at the back, the 3 pins are usually (I've never seen  
> different).  Left is cable select (CS); center, slave (SL); right,  
> master (MA).  Sometimes cable select works and sometimes not.  Sometimes  
> both the hard drive and CD/DVD need to be set at CS.  It sounds like  
> things are set right if you can RW DVDs and use the HD.
>
> That's the extent of my knowledge/experience.  Check the capacitors on  
> the mother board.  If they are going bad, that will cause some  
> strangeness, if not now, later.  Also being a Dell accounts for some  
> strangeness.
>
> Sometimes a CD/DVD seems to work in one machine and not another at the  
> BIOS level too.  No explanation.
>
> Earl
> "God made man, Sam Colt made men equal."
> "The fates guide him who will, him who won't they drag" Spengler
>
> -- "Predrag Punosevac" <punosevac72 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just forgot to say in my previous message that the only thing I have  
> not
> tried is to set jumpers
> on the DVD-RW in some other position. I left them as they were when I got
> DVD-RW.
> Could anybody tell me something more about those options.
>
> Thank
> Predrag
>
>
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