optical drive problem?? help me out

[everkorg]

hi veryone i new over here !

i have a ecs motherboard (geforce 6100MM)
and two dvd drives (one burner and the other one for reading purposes)

but i cant get both working property at the same time
i put one as master and one at slave but when i do that the recorder wont burn any media and my system get freeze

the motherboard only have one IDE connector so i cant plug both as master

but when i plug the recorder only it work very well so i think is the motherboard
or maybe the power supply is doesn't enough powerful (only 350 watts)
please help me out with this issue

 

[Tech]

If you're experiencing other system stability problems as well as the optical drive malfunction then the PSU may be at fault but seeing as you've not mentioned any other problems I will rule that out.

It is a real possibility that the two drives simply aren't capable of being used on the same controller together so I would check any documentation you have for them or ask the manufacturer(s), that is assuming they both work well when connected independantly of each other, ie one at a time

 

[donkey42]

the first thing to try is setting the drives up as C/S (Cable Select) set both IDE devices as C/S by selecting CS instead of master / slave

what thi does is allow the master / slave status of each devices to be determined by the location on IDE cable, the device at the end of the cable automatically becomes master & the device in the middle of the IDE cable become the slave

this may work because 1 or both IDE devices may be malfunctioning

BTW: you can leave both devices set to CS permanently, my IDE devices are set to CS because you don't need to move the jumper to switch a device from master to slave or vice versa, you just change the devices location on the IDE cable

hope this helps

BTW: Merry Christmas