Re: [SLUG] Two DVD Drives

From: Joe Brandt (vzd1s11k@verizon.net)
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 16:15:23 EST


steve szmidt wrote:

>On Tuesday 29 March 2005 21:06, Joe Brandt wrote:
>
>
>>I have ,for a while now, a DVD-ROM drive that has always worked without
>>a hitch. Until I replaced mu CD burner with a DVD burner. Now I get
>>messages that my DVD-ROM does not have any media in it. Did it just
>>happen to die when I replaced the CD burner with a DVD burner? Or is
>>there something preventing 2 DVD devices from working on the same machine?
>>
>>
>
>You could have had four CD's/DVD's in a machine, that's not the problem.
>There's a fair chance you just broke the cable. Try swapping it with another
>one.
>
>Of course you can also stick it into another machine and see if it's still
>broken. You do need to verify that they are not both primary or secondary on
>the same cable. But if you see them both tha's probably not the problem
>either.
>
>
>
>>Notes:
>>
>>They were originally on the same IDE cable and now on different - no
>>affect Originally on Mandrake noe Fedora Core3 - no affect.
>>I inshalled it in my wife's windows box and successfully upgraded its
>>firmware -no affect.
>>(sadly I did not test it while in her machine, something about the
>>tapping toes and hot bteath down my neck)
>>
>>Thank you in advance
>>Joe Brandt
>>
>>
>
>Yeah, I can see you're getting nervous just typing about it.
>
>

ps note I purchased expensive new cables with no affect (I wanted them
anyway)

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