Hi,all. Been using an all Intel system for hard disk multitrack audio recording. One HD and one CD one IDE1. Works great. I needed additional storage space, so I got a second HD. Both HD's are WD, an 1800JB and an 800JB. Since I can only connect two devices on one cable, I put the two HD's on IDE1 with one HD as slave and the other Master. No problems so far. When putting the CD on IDE2, as master, it is not recognized at all. Doesn't show up in the BIOS, Device Manager, etc. Secondary IDE is set at "auto" What gives? I know that IDE1 is in Ultra DMA mode 5- but there is not that option for IDE2 in the BIOS. I tried swapping cables, drives, etc. everything works on IDE1- Is there something amiss in my settings somewhere? Is IDE2 broken? Anything else that I might check? This computer is one year old and is used ONLY for audio. No modem, or printer, or amything other than my audio applications. P4 2.8Gig, 1 Gig RAM, Radeon graphics card, Gigabyte MOBO. WinXP Pro.Any input would be appreciated. It's getting kind of tiring jerking cables and jumpers just to back-up or archive. Thanks
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Jump to PostIs the CDROM jumper set to master.
not sure about what going on ,but if the hardrive are on the same cable,then dada transfer between the two could cause conflicts as they are traveling on the same ide cable .I would master one on Primary IDE ,slave the cdrom and …
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