CDR Freezes my Computer

[TycoonSam]

when ever I try to access my CDR it freezes up my computer. This happened after installing a new hard drive. The drive letters for all drives are corredc and both cd(DVD) and cdr show up in "My computer" and say "This device working"

please help
Thanks

[JungleMan1]

Had that problem with a DVD drive once. Try another IDE channel.

Does your DVD drive work?

[Darren Wilson]

Disable DMA for the CDR.

[TycoonSam]

DVD works fine, I disabled the DMA still not working. How do I chance the IDE channel?

[JungleMan1]

Open up your computer, do you see the big cable attached to your drive? Well follow it to the motherboard and you'll see the cable attached to 1 of 2 ports.

Simply follow the other big cable up, and see if there are any empty connectors; if there are, use that connector. You can always unhook another CDROM or a 2nd hard drive to free up a connector (temporarily)

If the connector is in the middle of the cable, set the jumper on the back of the drive to "slave"; if it's at the end, set it to "master".

However, do NOT unhook the primary master to free up a connector! You can see if the connector on your board is the primary one by looking right next to the connector; then do NOT unhook the hard drive that is at the other end of that cable.

[Darren Wilson]

[quote]Originally posted by JungleMan:
<strong>If the connector is in the middle of the cable, set the jumper on the back of the drive to "slave"; if it's at the end, set it to "master".</strong><hr></blockquote>

This part only pertains to it if you are using ATA66/100 cables which you shouldn't really on CD/DVD/CDRW-roms. If you are using standard 40 cable IDE's then it doesn;t matter which connector the slave/master is on as long as only one device is set to each setting.