[RESOLVED] CD-Roms on boot-up

[AbandonAllHope]

Lately upon boot-up my two cd-roms are not being detected, until i continue into windows, use the O/S for a while and then when I reboot they are both recognized. Any ideas on how I can get my computer to recognize them both the first time? I have an HP CD-Writer Plus 8100 set to master, and a Kenwood 72X set to slave. Any help is appreciated.

[techs]

I usually put the cdr as the slave and have had no problems. It sounds like a "warming up,spinning up" type problem. Also check if the auto insert notification is enable on both.

[This message has been edited by techs (edited November 15, 2000).]

[AbandonAllHope]

I've switched both drives from master to slave and when the burner is set to master it still only works at random while the 72X never works. There's no way to check for auto-insert notification when the drives won't even show up in windows because the BIOS fails to recognize them. However when the burner shows up auto-insert notification is selected.

[boba_99]

try putting CDR as master on secondary ide and other as slave on primary
have had this way work fine with some brands that dont want to work when both on sane port

[braybk]

I've run into that problem before with older hard disks (usually a WD/Seagate combination) but not cd-roms. Sometimes, even though the 2 drives are supposed to compatible with the IDE spec., they just don't talk to each other. Sometimes reversing which one is master and which one is slave will fix it, but you usually have to move one of the drives to another controller. I've also seen this problem fixed by a setting in the BIOS. Some BIOSes have a hard disk pre-delay time setting (or something similar to that). I used to have a WD in a Gateway I had that would refuse to be recognized and therefore wouldn't boot. I upped the amount of seconds on the delay, and it worked fine ever since.

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