Re: CD/DVD Drive Not Detected


"R. McCarty" <PcEngWork-NoSpam_@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Check both Controllers for the M/S taps and ensure that the one
serving your optical drive is not set to "None". Device Manager
IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Open the Primary & Secondary
Controllers detail box and click the Advanced (TAB). You should
see a box "Device Type" that indicates what is connected.
*Some combinations of devices on the same controller channel
will exhibit this type of behavior. You can test this by removing
the Seagate drive and see if the Optical is properly detected by
XP.


Thanks for the reply.
When I checked out the IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers , straight after boot up
when the CD/DVD drive was not detected is showed :

Device 0 - Device Type = Auto Detect
Device 1 - Device Type = Auto Detect - greyed out

After a rescan of System

Device 0 - Device Type = Auto Detect greyed out
Device 1 - Device Type = Auto Detect - greyed out

It looks like I maybe need to check the jumper settings on the CD/DVD drive.


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