Third CD drive?

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I have 1 SATA hard drive, which I use for storage, an IDE hard drive that is the system drive, a CD/DVD burner, and a CD burner. I want to add a CD-ROM drive so that I can make 2 copies of a CD at once.

The system drive has always been on its own IDE channel, and the CD drives were on their own. If I try to add another drive slaved onto the hard drive (with all jumpers correct) the OS won't load. The BIOS shows everything, and the hard drive is still master, but it won't load the hard drive.

Does anybody know why, and how I can fix this?
 
holyjunk125 said:
you have to have one optical drive a master and one slave dont you?
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Yes, they are automatically set like that. but I am trying to have 1 hard drive and one optical drive here....I'm not entirely sure what you are saying?
 
holyjunk125 said:
i thought you were having 2 optical drives (sorry i am proly not helping but ill try)
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Nono, I already have 2 optical drives on 1 channel, I am trying to add a third one on the same channel as my Windows hard drive.
 
o ic well like you said if you add it as slave to master hdd then it should probably work but maybe it is just not recognizing it as hdd so.... ya i helped a lot lol sorry
 
2 drives on each channel, no matter what kind of drive(optical, HD, whatever) it's all fine as long as it's master/slave.

I've heard it's best not to have a slower drive, like a CD-ROM, paired with a HD. People say it slows the HD down, but I don't know how true this is...
 
It doesn't sound very true, both should be running at ATA100 speed (and the CD drive (burner) is 48x 16x 48x....) whatever it just seems that whatever I do, it doesn't boot.

I'll try different drives on different channels, but I am really limited because of space in my case.
 
Actually most burners, even DVD burners only run at ATA33. They don't need to run any faster. But still, I've had CD-ROMs on the same channel has HDs and they still registered ATA100/ATA33 accordingly...

Did you have some other drive with the HD before? I know with Western Digital drives, they have a setting for master, and master with slave.
 
The_Other_One said:
Did you have some other drive with the HD before? I know with Western Digital drives, they have a setting for master, and master with slave.
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This is a Maxtor drive, and no, it has always been alone.

I will screw around with it later, after I finish my homework, which, unfortunately, takes precedence over computers. :rolleyes:
 
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