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.

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