Re: CDRW & DVD drive not working
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Date: 27 Oct 2004 11:44:29 -0500
=?Utf-8?B?amo=?= wrote:
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> I am unable to get my CDRW and DVD drives to work. They worked before I
> reset my bios. Now when booting I get the error : Sec Master ATAPI
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> I am going out to get another IDE cable, to see if that is the problem. I
Why mess with hardware and potentially opening up yet another can of
worms when the thing you did was software/firmware related?
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