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April 14th, 2000, 09:54 AM
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CDRW Drives and UDMA66 Cables
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. |
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April 14th, 2000, 11:23 AM
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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. ------------------ Who needs a life, I have Internet! members.cnx.net/reboot
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April 17th, 2000, 05:51 AM
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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... ------------------ God created human. Human created computers. God then got mad and created customers!!!!!
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