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Old 08-05-2007   #1 (permalink)
Mason
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Problem adding second DVD drive in Vista

Hi all-

I am running a Vista 64-bit machine that is set up as follows:

2x Seagate 250GB hard drives connected via SATA and running in IDE mode (non
RAID)
NEC DVD-RW connected via IDE

Everything was working fine, and I purchased a second DVD-RW (Samsung) to
add to my system. I daisy-chained it to the same IDE cable as the first DVD
drive. But after booting, I could not access the new drive. The nearest
support articles I found first instructed me to clear the upper range of
some filter in the registry, which didn't quite sound right since I was
adding a drive after I had everythihg working in Vista.

Deeper checking led me to believe that I need to adjust the jumper settings
on the drives, which were both set to master. I changed them both to CSEL.
Now Vista reports that I have 3 DVD drives. Trying to understand what the
jumpers should be is getting me nowhere since all the documentation I have
found refers to having a DVD daisy-chained off the hard disk ATA cable and
nothing about my configuration with hard disks on SATA and only two DVD
daisy-chained on IDE. Here are my questions:

1) What should my DVD jumpers be set at? master/slave or csel/csel or
master/csel?

2) Is there a performance concern between different jumper settings (as I
saw discussed for master/slave harddisk/dvd)?

3) How do I get Vista to reflect only 2 DVD drives, as that is what is on
the machine (I suspect question 1 solves this)?

Thanks very much for your assistance,
Mason


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Old 08-05-2007   #2 (permalink)
KentuckyRanger
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RE: Problem adding second DVD drive in Vista

When you Daisy Chain with IDE one needs to be set to master and the other to
slave. Usualy there's only 2 hookups on an IDE Cable, but if you have more
then you need to set a 3rd to CSEL. I think that's the common Jumper setting
when using a Third Drive. I know using a Third Drive can cause conflicts,
even with Jumpers set right. With all the jumpers set to the same, it's
blowing your BIOS's Mind, that's why it now thinks you have 3 Drives. It's
trying to figure out why there's 2 set up as slave 3rd Drive and is assumong
you have the first (Maser) Hooked up somewhere else.
Does any of your DVD, CD drives have a SATA connector? If your M-Board has
enough SATA Plugs this would be the best way to go. Not to mention you get
much better transfer rates with SATA and allot less Headaches.

"Mason" wrote:

> Hi all-
>
> I am running a Vista 64-bit machine that is set up as follows:
>
> 2x Seagate 250GB hard drives connected via SATA and running in IDE mode (non
> RAID)
> NEC DVD-RW connected via IDE
>
> Everything was working fine, and I purchased a second DVD-RW (Samsung) to
> add to my system. I daisy-chained it to the same IDE cable as the first DVD
> drive. But after booting, I could not access the new drive. The nearest
> support articles I found first instructed me to clear the upper range of
> some filter in the registry, which didn't quite sound right since I was
> adding a drive after I had everythihg working in Vista.
>
> Deeper checking led me to believe that I need to adjust the jumper settings
> on the drives, which were both set to master. I changed them both to CSEL.
> Now Vista reports that I have 3 DVD drives. Trying to understand what the
> jumpers should be is getting me nowhere since all the documentation I have
> found refers to having a DVD daisy-chained off the hard disk ATA cable and
> nothing about my configuration with hard disks on SATA and only two DVD
> daisy-chained on IDE. Here are my questions:
>
> 1) What should my DVD jumpers be set at? master/slave or csel/csel or
> master/csel?
>
> 2) Is there a performance concern between different jumper settings (as I
> saw discussed for master/slave harddisk/dvd)?
>
> 3) How do I get Vista to reflect only 2 DVD drives, as that is what is on
> the machine (I suspect question 1 solves this)?
>
> Thanks very much for your assistance,
> Mason
>
>

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Old 08-06-2007   #3 (permalink)
Jerry Grabill
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Re: Problem adding second DVD drive in Vista

The original NEC DVD-Rw should be set as master. Your new
one should be set as slave. I just installed a additional player
and this setup worked fine. Go Luck.

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"KentuckyRanger" <KentuckyRanger@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:FEF437AD-06BD-4709-B5EA-5B37F62B129D@microsoft.com...
> When you Daisy Chain with IDE one needs to be set to master and the other
> to
> slave. Usualy there's only 2 hookups on an IDE Cable, but if you have more
> then you need to set a 3rd to CSEL. I think that's the common Jumper
> setting
> when using a Third Drive. I know using a Third Drive can cause conflicts,
> even with Jumpers set right. With all the jumpers set to the same, it's
> blowing your BIOS's Mind, that's why it now thinks you have 3 Drives. It's
> trying to figure out why there's 2 set up as slave 3rd Drive and is
> assumong
> you have the first (Maser) Hooked up somewhere else.
> Does any of your DVD, CD drives have a SATA connector? If your M-Board has
> enough SATA Plugs this would be the best way to go. Not to mention you get
> much better transfer rates with SATA and allot less Headaches.
>
> "Mason" wrote:
>
>> Hi all-
>>
>> I am running a Vista 64-bit machine that is set up as follows:
>>
>> 2x Seagate 250GB hard drives connected via SATA and running in IDE mode
>> (non
>> RAID)
>> NEC DVD-RW connected via IDE
>>
>> Everything was working fine, and I purchased a second DVD-RW (Samsung) to
>> add to my system. I daisy-chained it to the same IDE cable as the first
>> DVD
>> drive. But after booting, I could not access the new drive. The nearest
>> support articles I found first instructed me to clear the upper range of
>> some filter in the registry, which didn't quite sound right since I was
>> adding a drive after I had everythihg working in Vista.
>>
>> Deeper checking led me to believe that I need to adjust the jumper
>> settings
>> on the drives, which were both set to master. I changed them both to
>> CSEL.
>> Now Vista reports that I have 3 DVD drives. Trying to understand what
>> the
>> jumpers should be is getting me nowhere since all the documentation I
>> have
>> found refers to having a DVD daisy-chained off the hard disk ATA cable
>> and
>> nothing about my configuration with hard disks on SATA and only two DVD
>> daisy-chained on IDE. Here are my questions:
>>
>> 1) What should my DVD jumpers be set at? master/slave or csel/csel or
>> master/csel?
>>
>> 2) Is there a performance concern between different jumper settings (as
>> I
>> saw discussed for master/slave harddisk/dvd)?
>>
>> 3) How do I get Vista to reflect only 2 DVD drives, as that is what is
>> on
>> the machine (I suspect question 1 solves this)?
>>
>> Thanks very much for your assistance,
>> Mason
>>
>>


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