Optical Drive Troubleshooting help needed

[CraigR]

I have put together a machine with the following specs:

Mobo: Abit K8N32X
CPU: AMD 64 X2 4400+
GPU: XFX 7950 GX2
RAM: Corsair TWINX2048-3200C2
HDD1: WD740GD
HDD2 & 3 (RAID 0): WD2500KS
PSU: OCZ OCZ700GXSSLI
Optical 1: Pioneer DVR-111D
Optical 2: Samsung SH-S162L

Optical 1 and 2 are installed on the same IDE cable, with Optical 1 set as the master and 2 as the slave.

Both drives are recoginezed by the Bios correctly.

I used Opticall 1 to install windows. No issues encountered.

After getting windows running, Optical 1 no longer recognizes disks being put into it. Actually, to be more specific, when a disk is put into it the system will hang. When I open the drawer the system will come back.

Optical 2 works fine.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

[doctorgonzo]

Have you tried putting them on different IDE channels? Sometimes drives just don't work together well. It's strange but it happens.

[freakitchen]

How are the drives jumpered, and what type of IDE cable are they on?

On a coarse 40 wire cable, drives should be jumpered master and slave

On a fine 80 wire cable, they should be jumpered to Cable Select.

FK

[CraigR]

Drive 1 is set to Master
Drive 2 is set to Slave

It's a 40 wire IDE cable.

If it was the IDE channel, wouldn't that have been an issue regardless of Windows? I was able to install windows using Drive 1, just not since.

[glc]

Open your IDE controllers in device manager and make sure they are all set to DMA.

[CraigR]

Hey,

Just to close the thread - What ended up working was switching the order of the drives. I moved the Samsung drive to be in the master position and the Pioneer drive in the slave.

I have no idea why the Pioneer decided to work as the slave, but as long as they work, I won't complain.

Thanks everyone!