need help with CD/DVD read/write

[joebeemish]

I hooked up a NEC ND-3550A on IDE using the 80 conductor/40 pin IDE cable at the middle connector on the primary IDE. My only hard drive is on SATA. The DVD/CD drive is the master, no slave present. Read operations "freeze", like nero reads and windows media player. CD burning has a very low success rate. I didn't try DVD. I then bought a BENQ DW1655. Same problem. I then connected the drive to to the end connector on the IDE - no improvement. I have bios 201. Any tips? ( I am able to read data CD's and data DVD's).

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ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe, Athlon 4400+, Corsair 2-2-2-5 1GB Mem, ATI X1900XT video, Enermax 620 P/S, Antec P-180 case, Maxtor dimondmax 300GB - SATA 150.

 

[JN]

I would try:

* A New IDE Cable

* The secondary IDE

And see how that goes.

 

[joebeemish]

I did, no joy.

 

[Ham]

Is it set to primary via the jumpers or is it on cable select?

Also how many IDE ports does you'r mobo have? I would have thought it's 2. If so have you tried the other?

My ASRock for example requiers Optical drive to be plugged into IDE01 and HDDs in IDE00, other wise it has a hissy fit. (Btw ASRock (apparetly) is a division of Asus, so our boards are not totaly unrelated)

 

[Toxteth O'Grady]

Go into Nero Info Tool and check your ASPI Layer.



TOG

 

[joebeemish]

The ASPI layer checks out OK.

 

[joebeemish]

It turns out that DMA needed to be enabled in the device driver options. That fixed the problem.

 

[PV5150]

Sweet mate glad you got it sorted. Sorry I missed this post somehow