Last night I installed my new liteon 411s dvd burner. My old Samsung dvd reader cd burner combo was switched to slave and the DVD burner was set to master both on the second cable. They both work fine as long as I boot the machine with a disc in the drive. If I start it with either of them empty, the empty one will not read any media put into them regardless of the type. I have tried music cds, known good data cds, Commercial DVDs and the results are the same. If the machine was started with any disc in the drive, that particular drive will work normally and read or write any other media I swap into it afterwords. If discs are in both drives when the machine is started, they both work fine. When it was just the Samsung dvd reader cd burner combo, it didn't have this problem.
I have a DELL 8100 1.7Gig machine with 512 mb ddr ram running XP pro and use Nero 6 ultra. There is one 60gig drive on the primary cable, the dvd as master and cd as slave on the secondary cable, and an ultra ATA 133 card with a 120gb and 160gb on its primary cable. The Bios has been updated to the latest xp. Both CD and DVD drives are set to DMA. Both the Samsung and Liteon drives are using the xp drivers installed automatically when they were detected by XP.
I have tried it with the drives set as slave and master, as master and slave, and both cable select. I have tried with Auto Insert Notification turned off and turned on. None of this made any difference. I know that I could just work around the problem by leaving a disc in each drive on startup, but there has to be something goofy going on here, and I would like to fix it correctly.
I have a DELL 8100 1.7Gig machine with 512 mb ddr ram running XP pro and use Nero 6 ultra. There is one 60gig drive on the primary cable, the dvd as master and cd as slave on the secondary cable, and an ultra ATA 133 card with a 120gb and 160gb on its primary cable. The Bios has been updated to the latest xp. Both CD and DVD drives are set to DMA. Both the Samsung and Liteon drives are using the xp drivers installed automatically when they were detected by XP.
I have tried it with the drives set as slave and master, as master and slave, and both cable select. I have tried with Auto Insert Notification turned off and turned on. None of this made any difference. I know that I could just work around the problem by leaving a disc in each drive on startup, but there has to be something goofy going on here, and I would like to fix it correctly.
