[RESOLVED] CDRW Drives and UDMA66 Cables

[Gavin Jackson]

Has anyone out their came across this - bear it in mind as it may be of use!

Installed an Acer CDRW into a machine, set it up as a primary slave (using UDMA66 IDE Cable for HDD.) All seemed to work well until the drive suddenly stopped reading CD`s after a reboot(was reading/writing fine.) Eventually found (after removing writing software etc) that the drive worked very erratically with a UDMA66 IDE Cable but worked perfectly with a standard 40 Pin IDE Cable.

This info may be useful.

Post a reply if you have seen anything similar.

[ReBoot]

Every time.
Put all CD stuff on secondary, ATA33, and leave the primary at ATA66. IDE CD-Rom/RW's don't like ATA66 for some reason.

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[AlienDyne]

I tried my HP CD-RW on Asus's UDMA66 Card.
It was working properly, but couldn't burn under Easy CD Creator 4.
I pulled it out and put it on the motherboard's UDMA33 IDE connector.

Works fine now...

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