Hi all, Has anyone been having trouble with having a cd-rom and a cdrw in the same computer? I am trying to have a 32 speed wearnes drive installed with a hp cdrw 7200i, to no avail! The bios seems to recognize both drives, however, windows doesn't seem to like it at all. The windows 98se or me seem to be able to rexognize either the cdrw drive or the cdrom in the windows explorer, but not both! In the device manager, they are both recognized, but it won't allow you to set a different drive letter for the hp or the cdrom. So you can only use 1 on the particular drive letter. both are ide drives, Anybody have a solution to this problem?

Just a quick suggestion: If both reside on the same IDE cable check the jumper settings to ensure that one is set to master and the other to slave.
The only other suggestion is uninstalling and reinstalling in varying orders (no conflict indicator in the device manager?). Driver issues?

Good suggestion, I'm thinking driver issues! This is the third time I've tried to install these silly things together, and it's really a pain! Especially not having anything to show for it.
Currently, I'm running a promise technologies ultra66 card, which the hd is connected to. So, I connected the hp cdrw to the primary ide on the motherboard, and the wearnes 32X cdrom to the secondary ide on the motherboard. That should have worked.
So have you had success bassvax with a cdrw and a cdrom on the same cable?
I might have to resort to the master and slave configuration of one cable if it works! But they both should work on their own ide connections as master drives!!
Thanks , Dave S.

Hi, I've just had similar problem. I set up my new CD RW as master on secondary IDE (as suggested in instruction manual) after which windows failed to start. I then set it to slave and replaced my CD Rom on the Primary IDE (the master being the hard drive) and it worked OK. but then I had no CD rom. After a lot of trouble: the solution (found by experimenting) was to re-set up as original (ie:HD as master & CD rom as Slave 0n Primary IDE) then set up the new CD RW as SLAVE on the secondary IDE (no other devices attached) & make sure device manager shows 'Both IDE channels operative.)Both now work OK.


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Originally posted by Vic 970:
Hi, I've just had similar problem. I set up my new CD RW as master on secondary IDE (as suggested in instruction manual) after which windows failed to start. I then set it to slave and replaced my CD Rom on the Primary IDE (the master being the hard drive) and it worked OK. but then I had no CD rom. After a lot of trouble: the solution (found by experimenting) was to re-set up as original (ie:HD as master & CD rom as Slave 0n Primary IDE) then set up the new CD RW as SLAVE on the secondary IDE (no other devices attached) & make sure device manager shows 'Both IDE channels operative.)Both now work OK.
this is exactly what i did ,and it work perfectly.....



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I got 2 HD's and 2 CD-ROM's (CD-R & CD-RW). Also I got 2 IDE channels. Currently, I have installed HD#1 (Master) and CD-R (Slave) on IDE#1. On IDE#2, HD#2(Master) and CD-RW (Slave). With this background, I'm trying to reBuild the whole the PC's software including reInstalling the OS (Win98). I'm not able install even the OS (I've partitioned/formatted everything done). Does this set up will really hurt the installation. Or my basic question is how exactly the IDE Primary/Secondary HD/CD set up will effect the installation? Is it a safe bet to install them as
IDE#1 (Primary Channel): Master: HD#1
Slave: HD#2
IDE#2 (Secondary Channel): Master: CD-R
Slave: CD-RW

Thanks,
-Srini

daves_22 Yes, I'm seeing a lot of problems with both co-existing. I don't have a clue why yet, but I'm going to do some digging and see if I can get some ideas. Could be that the computer sees two CD ROM drives and doesn't know what to do with them. You put in a CD, and which software does it need to use? It can't decide, so you have a problem...I dunno...maybe that's not even close...

Like I said, I'm clueless on this issue.

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