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P4800 with I/O Magic DVD+RW drive won't see IDE drive
I have a P4800 (Bios 1012 11/11/03) with a 120gig Maxtor as the
primary IDE. The slave is a I/O Magic DVD +- writer. The system will not detect the Maxtor drive (master) when the writer is installed as slave or cable select. I also tried setting the Maxtor to cable select. The system boots fine if I install a HP DVD writer. I tested the I/O magic in a USB caddy and the drive works fine. Thanks Gary Quiring |
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"Gary Quiring" wrote in message
... I have a P4800 (Bios 1012 11/11/03) with a 120gig Maxtor as the primary IDE. The slave is a I/O Magic DVD +- writer. The system will not detect the Maxtor drive (master) when the writer is installed as slave or cable select. I also tried setting the Maxtor to cable select. The system boots fine if I install a HP DVD writer. I tested the I/O magic in a USB caddy and the drive works fine. Thanks Gary Quiring Set the Maxtor as Master on primary IDE channel and put the DVD on the secondary IDE channel as Master. This should make it work, as well as, making your hard drive more efficient. |
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On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:41:52 -0500, "SpongeBob"
wrote: "Gary Quiring" wrote in message .. . I have a P4800 (Bios 1012 11/11/03) with a 120gig Maxtor as the primary IDE. The slave is a I/O Magic DVD +- writer. The system will not detect the Maxtor drive (master) when the writer is installed as slave or cable select. I also tried setting the Maxtor to cable select. The system boots fine if I install a HP DVD writer. I tested the I/O magic in a USB caddy and the drive works fine. Thanks Gary Quiring Set the Maxtor as Master on primary IDE channel and put the DVD on the secondary IDE channel as Master. This should make it work, as well as, making your hard drive more efficient. I am not able to do that because of a distance problem with the ribbons. My other IDE channel is also used up with two other hard drives. What did work was setting the DVD as master and the boot drive as slave. Gary |
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"Gary Quiring" wrote in message ... On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:41:52 -0500, "SpongeBob" wrote: "Gary Quiring" wrote in message .. . I have a P4800 (Bios 1012 11/11/03) with a 120gig Maxtor as the primary IDE. The slave is a I/O Magic DVD +- writer. The system will not detect the Maxtor drive (master) when the writer is installed as slave or cable select. I also tried setting the Maxtor to cable select. The system boots fine if I install a HP DVD writer. I tested the I/O magic in a USB caddy and the drive works fine. Thanks Gary Quiring Set the Maxtor as Master on primary IDE channel and put the DVD on the secondary IDE channel as Master. This should make it work, as well as, making your hard drive more efficient. I am not able to do that because of a distance problem with the ribbons. My other IDE channel is also used up with two other hard drives. What did work was setting the DVD as master and the boot drive as slave. Gary Do you realize that putting the DVD on the same channel as you hard drive will slow the transfer speed of the hard drive to that of the DVD (UMDA33 or even worse PIO4). |
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"Armin Pfeffer" wrote in message ... On Fri, 19 Dec 2003 11:13:59 -0500, "SpongeBob" wrote: ... Do you realize that putting the DVD on the same channel as you hard drive will slow the transfer speed of the hard drive to that of the DVD (UMDA33 or even worse PIO4). Hm, I'm not really sure, but I belive this is wrong with todays ATA modes! There is however the fact, that only on device can work at a time, but every device will work at it's speed, regardsless of the other device. You sholud not have to fear a speed down imho. Armin See attached web pages (PC World, Microsoft, VIAArena) on keeping hard drives on separate channels than optical drives... http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...25,pg,2,00.asp http://support.microsoft.com/default...%2Fcddrive.asp http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=94 |
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sorry to hijack this thread Spongebob
SpongeBob wrote: See attached web pages (PC World, Microsoft, VIAArena) on keeping hard drives on separate channels than optical drives... http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...25,pg,2,00.asp http://support.microsoft.com/default...%2Fcddrive.asp http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=94 I read through the articles and understand I'm not getting optimal speeds. However, can I assume if I'm happy with the performance of my computer that it won't really do any harm to keep the cd burner on the primary slave? I reconfigured everything during my upgrade (had trouble getting the drives to be recognized) and the burner/ C drive are on the primary and 2 other HD are on the secondary. Changing this around means removing the board and rearranging the HD for about the 100th time and I really don't want to do that. I don't know if my case sucks but there is no way to take out the HD without swinging the board out. They hit the p4 fan. Also I used the HD cable Asus gave me and now am wondering if I should have hooked up the CD rom cable they gave me to the C drive and cd burner? Thank you. |
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"lucky" wrote in message
. com... sorry to hijack this thread Spongebob SpongeBob wrote: See attached web pages (PC World, Microsoft, VIAArena) on keeping hard drives on separate channels than optical drives... http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/artic...25,pg,2,00.asp http://support.microsoft.com/default...%2Fcddrive.asp http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=94 I read through the articles and understand I'm not getting optimal speeds. However, can I assume if I'm happy with the performance of my computer that it won't really do any harm to keep the cd burner on the primary slave? I reconfigured everything during my upgrade (had trouble getting the drives to be recognized) and the burner/ C drive are on the primary and 2 other HD are on the secondary. Changing this around means removing the board and rearranging the HD for about the 100th time and I really don't want to do that. I don't know if my case sucks but there is no way to take out the HD without swinging the board out. They hit the p4 fan. Also I used the HD cable Asus gave me and now am wondering if I should have hooked up the CD rom cable they gave me to the C drive and cd burner? Thank you. It shouldn't matter if you already have them with your other cables...although an 80-pin cable would be better than a 40 pin. I'm not sure what you have now. If your satisfied and getting frustrated messing with it. Keep it. It will give you something to do in a few months when you get bored. |
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