Installed CD-RW

Hiya could somebody help me please

I installed a CD-RW and cant get it to work right

in Setup Utilitys (when machine is starting up press Delete)
The Prime Master, The Pri Slave, Sec Master, Sec Slave are set at AUTO

In Advance Setup
Quick Book disk is at Enabled
1st Boot Device is at IDE-0
2nd Boot Device is at IDE-1
3rd Boot Device is at CDROM
Try other Boot Device is at YES
S.M.A.R.T. for hard Drive is at ENABLED
Floppy Dive Swap is at DISABLED
Floppy Drive Seek is at DISABLED


is this correct as i cant get the CDROM & CR-RW to work at same time



PLEASE HELP

 

Try installing drivers for it. Also, software should have come with your package on a cd.

 

The CD-RW is working ok I cant get the setings and cant get both Drives to work at once

 

The jumpers on the CD and CD-RW are set how?

 

CDROM is in top then CD-RW is next
the pugs go from cdrom to cd-rw to motherboard

 

Take the CDROM or CDR-W uniit out of your computer. On the back are some jumper settings. The factory default is usually slave "SL". change on of the CD drives to master "MA".

If both your CD-RW and CDROM drives are on slave and on the same IDE channel (i.e. IDE 1 or IDE2), then you won't be able to access both at once.

 

i have set mine so that the cdrw is master and the cdrom slave

 

I'm all with you Phantom, my guess is that the jumpers are untouched, though I must say I belive they're on Master, not Slave

You should have a map of jumper settings somewhere on the CD/CDRW drive, just set the jumpers as the map says, making (in your case) CDROM as slave and CDRW as master.

 

The reason why the factory default is usually, but not always, set at slave from the factory is to try and make it as foolproof as possible. Nearly always people have their C drives set to master. The idea being, I suppose that someone can just connect up the CD device without touching anything. The catch is, most of us like to have more than one CD device, nowadays.

Having said that, I've installed burners that were set at master by factory default. It's not a biggie, like you said; one only has to look at the thing.