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07-29-2002, 10:33 AM
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How to get both a cd and a cd-rw drive working?
Just got a Bus Link 4800 cd-rw drive and i was trying to get it working with a sony cd-drive... (forgot the model number... im not at home right now). I had the sony drive connected through secondary ide connection.. and the half way through connection i plugged that into the cd-rw... set the sony drive to master and cd-rw to slave... when ido this.. the cd-rw drive is not recognized at all by the computer... i tried some other combos and can't get the computer to recognize the cd-rw. The only way my computer does recognize that drive is if i directly connect that through to secondary ide... skipping the sony drive... when i do that... computer recognizes that as a cd drive but not the fact that its a cd-rw :-(. I have no fricking clue why its doing that... someone HELP!
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07-29-2002, 10:49 AM
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Don't worry about that. The drive will work fine. Computers see them as CD-ROMs only. The drivers are the same as CD-ROMs, too.
It sounds like it should be able to burn. Try it and see. I had the same problems when I got my burner couple mos. ago.
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07-29-2002, 11:12 AM
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But my question was what is the correct way to connect it? Because the way i have it now.. .it doesn't realize that it is even there... i just see my cd-drive.. and i have triple checked all connections...
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07-29-2002, 11:13 AM
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and from what i have read and talked about with my friends.. and they say this is the right way... but this way it doesn't even see the cd-rw drive.
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07-29-2002, 11:18 AM
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btw i have a Asus A7V333 mb.. if it matter at all.
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07-29-2002, 11:28 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Hi imademyfirstcomputer,
Some CD-ROM's and CD-RW's just don't like being on the same IDE channel together. You may have to separate them. Have you tried another IDE cable yet? Are you sure the drive jumpers are set correctly (master, slave with a 40 wire ATA33 cable). You could try putting the Sony on the primary IDE channel as the slave to the hard drive (use the CS jumper setting if you're using a 80 wire Ultra ATA cable). In order to burn CD's, you have to install the burning software. Without it, the CD-RW is just another CD-ROM to the computer.  Cricket
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07-29-2002, 11:32 AM
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Is the burner recognised by the BIOS when you boot up?
Try using a standard 40 wire IDE cable on IDE 2 and setting the burner to Master and the CD-Rom to slave. Try a different IDE cable. |
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07-29-2002, 11:39 AM
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I use a standard 40 wire IDE cable for my cd-rom and the cdr-w. One is set as Master, and the one is set as slave, and it works fine.
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07-29-2002, 11:41 AM
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Okay well there was some combo i tried last night... i got both of them recognized... but when i actually tried using them... i have both nero and adaptec (full retail version)... nether of them recognized the fact that i had a burner... even when i had it directly connected to my secondary ide...
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07-29-2002, 01:11 PM
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When the BIOS recognised the burner, did you check in Device Manager to see the proper make and model was listed under the CDRom branch?
If it is listed, you should just install your burning software and then be able to use it. All the burning is then done thro the software. |
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07-29-2002, 01:12 PM
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Try setting the CD-ROM as CS and the CD-RW CS aswell, and see if that helps. I don't know if anybody suggested that. Also check in the BIOS to make suree that the BIOS identifies both drives as one Master and the other as Slave.
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07-29-2002, 01:42 PM
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Hm... thats one combo i haven't tried... setting both on CS... ill give that a try. Thanks guys.
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07-29-2002, 02:05 PM
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What OS are you using?
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07-29-2002, 02:12 PM
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If that's a brand new model burner, you may have to get the latest update for your burning software in order for the software to recognize the burner.
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07-29-2002, 02:38 PM
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Hi imademyfirstcomputer,
Yeah, make sure the burning software supports that CD-RW drive. Go to the Nero and Roxio websites and see if that CD-RW is a supported one. You may need to download and install an update. Cricket
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07-29-2002, 03:28 PM
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Im using windows 98
 ... but neways.... the nero software cd came with the burner.
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07-29-2002, 03:47 PM
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I checked nero... well doesn't seem like they support bus link and neither does adaptec
.... should i just return it and pay 20 dollars more for a sony cd-recorder?
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07-29-2002, 03:56 PM
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Quote:
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07-29-2002, 04:58 PM
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Cool thanks dude... ill try that.
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07-29-2002, 09:02 PM
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Cricket what would i ever do without ya
, thanks... and ofcourse thanks to everyone else that helped me out... appreciate all of you helping out.... so finally my computer is 100% working and thanks to all of you. I might put a pic of this kick ass machine sometime... its pretty damn sweet =).
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07-30-2002, 12:29 AM
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Shiro Usagi
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Hi imademyfirstcomputer,
Glad you got your system working right. Yeah, post a picture of your rig in the "Post a pic of YOUR computer's innards" thread in the General Discussion Forum, it'll be cool to see what it looks like. Might as well try to keep that thread growing. Post a pic of your computer's innards Cricket
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