Problem following second HDD installation

I have just fitted a second 400GB HDD to my system. I now find that only one of my DVD drives (a RW) shows up, but it is not recognising any DVDs or CDs. It is listed as working in Device Manager. My other DVD drive (a DVD ROM) has vanished. If I disconnect the second HDD I get both DVDs back but only the DVD ROM actually works properly although both show as working in Device Manager.
At a bare minimum I would like the two HDDs plus the DVD-RW working, but ideally both DVDs.

Any ideas?

Dave

 

i think you maybe running out of system resorces, what OS

 

Windows Vista on a Core 2 Quad system with 2GB memory if this helps.

Dave

 

well i was kinda hoping for a list of all hardware devices attached & all software installed

:doh:

so, why didn´t i ask for that ?
cos i´m a plank. :doh:

if it is low resources try uninstalling software you don´t use (i´ve about 100 apps on my Vista box ranging from OOo and to MS SQL Server & WinCVS)

and temporarily remove some hardware, and see if Vista behaves

 

Hello,
Things are now a little better. I have the following
400GB Hitachi SATA HDD
400GB ? IDE HDD
Phillips DVD-RW SATA
LG DVD-ROM IDE

All are connected up with the LG jumper set to Master and the ? IDE HDD set to Cable Select.
With all this I can see all the icons in My Computer and everything works except for the Phillips DVD-ROM SATA (every time I inset a CD/DVD it doesn't see it and asks for one). Should the IDE HDD be set to Slave rather than Cable Select and irrespective of this is the fact that my DVD-RW is not recognised anything to do with the jumper positions?
Thanks in anticipation.

Dave

 

in a perfect world each IDE channel should have one device set to master and the second device set to slave, if both devices set to CS and the device connected to the end of the IDE cable will automatically become master & the device connected to the middle IDE cable will become slave, that's how CS works, generally you decide weather to use CS or master / slave,

persoally both IDE channels use CS on my (currently dismantled for cleaning) Debian box, so i'm having to use Vista . . . GggRrr

anyway, back to prob, generally - primary master = HDD, cos usually the BIOS boots this drive first, personally my HDD is primary master & slave is a spare HDD & my secondary master is my DVD-RW & secondary slave is my DVD-ROM, so: to clarify, your setup should be:

primary master (IDE0) = 400GB IDE HDD (set to CS)
primary slave (IDE1) = LG DVD-ROM (set to CS)
secondary master (IDE2) = empty
secondary slave (IDE3) = empty

SATA port = 400GB SATA HDD
SATA port = Phillips DVD-RW

DVD-RW is SATA, nothing to do with IDE

i thought the SATA DVD was a RW not a ROM, please clafify

also have you thought about using a lens cleaner, & test the suspect drive on another system

 

Thanks. SATA DVD is an RW.

Dave

 

good, was doubting myself

BTW: is it fixed / working ?

 

I will try out your suggestions tonight althought I don't have a lens cleaner at the mo. It is unlikely to be that IMO as I have only had the system about 10 months and not used the RW very much.

Dave