Slave IDE device not visible in W2K

DashDangerDashDanger
edited March 2004 in Hardware
I have an ABIT KR7A motherboard. I'm wanting to add a DVD burning to my box. It already has a LiteOn DVD ROM drive and a Plextor CDRW drive. I have the hard drives on the High Point control. Since I have 3 drives to put on my IDE port 1 & 2. One of them has to be the slave. No matter what configuration I use the slave device is not visible in W2K. The BIOS sees it correcty but not Windows. I first tied have the DVD burner as master and the CDRW as slave since I figured Iwouldn't be using both of those at the same time. The CDRW was not visible. Then I thought I'd put the CDRW as master and the DVD ROM together leaving the DVD burner by itselt. In this case the DVE ROM is missing. Any ideas on what I'm missing.

Comments

  • NebulousNebulous New York, The Empire State
    edited February 2004
    You need to install the drivers for the DVD burner. Win2k doesn't see drives like XP. If it's seen in the bios, then you're half way there. Just go to:
    Control panel>Add/remove new device, or once you're on desktop install the drivers from the CD.
  • DashDangerDashDanger
    edited February 2004
    Nebulous wrote:
    You need to install the drivers for the DVD burner. Win2k doesn't see drives like XP. If it's seen in the bios, then you're half way there. Just go to:
    Control panel>Add/remove new device, or once you're on desktop install the drivers from the CD.

    I think you missed my point. I do have the drivers for the DVD burner installed. The DVD burner works fine if it is located as the master drive on IDE 1 or 2. The problem is that I have 3 drives and therefore one of them has to be located as a slave on either IDE 1 or IDE2. No matter how I arrange them the slave drive is not seen by Windows. It's there in the BIOS but not windows. All drives get power because the LEDs comes on and the trays all works but windows doesn't see the one that is located as slave. I have the pins right and slave is located at the end of ribbon cable. As I said BIOS sees it. This has to be something in Win2K to correct right?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited February 2004
    Go into settings>>control pannel>>Administrative Tools>>Computer Management and see if they are showing up there. There could be an issue with drive letters and you not having enough available or anything being correctly assigned.
  • handlbarhandlbar
    edited February 2004
    You mentioned the slave drive located on the cables end. Put the master on the end and the slave on the middle connector. Win2k should then see it and ask for the drivers if they aren't already installed. If all is well, it should show in device manager with no question marks next to it.
  • DashDangerDashDanger
    edited February 2004
    I misspoke eariler when I said the slave was on the end. I've double checked and the slave is attached to the gray connector and the master is connected to the black connecter at the end.
    I've also been to the Drive manager via the Control Panel and Computer Management. THe third drive (slave) does not show up. How do I determine if I have a limit on available drive letters?
  • ramdexramdex Tucson
    edited February 2004
    so it is showing up in bios, double ceck the jumbers on both devices on that cable. If its set to cable select on both or one of them then set them to master and slave and see if that works. Also did you look in Go into settings>>control pannel>>Administrative Tools>>Computer Management like kryyst said to do and check the drive letters. its should show up under device manager.
  • DashDangerDashDanger
    edited February 2004
    That's right. All three drives show up in the BIOS correctly. However in Windows only the two master drives show up. the slave never shows up. And I've swoped the drives around with different ones being the slave but whichever one is the slave doesn't show up. I've double checked and the pins are correct and the cable connections are correct.
    I did go to the Computer Management screen via Contol Panel like suggested and only the two master drives show up.
    Additional info. Hard drive is C: Then with three drives that would be D, E, and F. However I currently have a USB Removeable Drive listed as F: I figured it would get bumped to G: Is it possible that it is getting in the way and preventing the other drive from getting listed?
  • ramdexramdex Tucson
    edited February 2004
    hmmmm, you got me stumped, ill see what I can read up on this but it should show up. Do you know if cd roms use dma or IRQ addresses? also list to me the setup in the primary ide and the secondary ide, also you know for sure that the drive is not bad itself right?
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited March 2004
    That could be the conflict with the USB drive. Try uninstalling the USB drive and see if that works.

    Also system specs is this an older Mobo by chance? There could be an issue that the mobo won't recog the new drive because it's to big or something to that effect. There are two possiblities here. First you may need to install bus drivers for the hard drive before anything beyond the bios will recog it. The other possiblitiy is that if your ide is only serial 66 and this drive is 100/133 your system may not read it correctly.

    Right now I'm sorta grasping. Other things to try Disconnect all the drives except this one and put it on as primary master. Then boot up with a boot floppy and see if you can format the drive. Then put it back in.

    One other thing to try is boot up and with all your current settings and go into dos and just try going to whatever drive letter this should be (I think G from your your previous posts)

    so just at the c:> put in G: and see what it gives you if it says drive can't be found, well then you are no further ahead. If it says something else like not formated or something of that nature then the drive is actually there. But try G - I just to be save.
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