Used DVD Re writer - Secondary Slave ATAPI Incompatable help!!?

Question

Hi i just got this dvd re writer of a friend of mine its a pioneer 106 + re writer - just put it into my computer connecting it where the old dvd drive was and got a message secondary slave ATAPI incompatable ???? i am no pc wiz i need a quick fix people help me lol also i just looked in my computer and my cd re3 writer isnt listed either???? it looks as if i have no cddrives???? HELP!!

connected with ide and power cable

windows xp pro - do i need drivers or somethin?

Answer 1

the jumpers "computer guy" is talking about are usualy little rectangular white, or black pieces of plastic coated metal
on the back of the drive.
note that the drive is a writing drive therefore, it needs to be master
IE the drive has three settings identified by markings on the pin diagram such as
M or MA meaning master
S or SL meaning Slave
Cable or CS meaning cable select

you can most likely leave the drive in CS mode if it is already.

then move the drive to a different location on the IDE cable.
Note: do not put optical drives on the same IDE cable of a hard drive. It may not damage the computer irrepairably or at all, but it can cause lots of headaches

Id say remove one of the writable drives with a standard CD-ROM if you leave the drive in CS mode,
otherwise Master for your DVD+/-RW and slave for your CD-RW drives

REMEMBER the end of the IDE cable is MASTER, and the Middle is SLAVE.

Answer 2

Writers should be masters, not slaves. There are tiny jumpers on the back of CD and DVD drives. The default setting is usually "Cable Select" or CS. If your DVD drive is set CS, it should be at the very end of the flat gray cable that is your secondary IDE.

You should not need drivers to read a CD, but you will need DVD software

Answer 3

definite you may yet you will dramatically impression the value of the complicated stress. With IDE, I wouldnt even hook up a 2d complicated stress to the accepted IDE port (that would desire to have the OS/boot stress). there is in basic terms one channel with IDE, in basic terms one stress can deliver/get carry of at any given time. With SCSI, there are multi channels so the drives dont would desire to attend their turn to deliver/get carry of records, because of the fact of this servers and useful workstations make the main of the costlier SCSI drives. yet... SATA is particularly close in overall performance now, and at a plenty low value. I honestly have a pair of servers at artwork that use SATA, with the C2D processors they are very speedy and extra forgiving then SCSI. IDE and SCSI have become a factor of the previous. you have SATA connections... i desire you arent using a IDE complicated stress as a accepted stress, if so, you're falling by the wayside on overall performance... get a SATA stress and use that IDE stress as a secondary, backup or records stress. you additionally can %. up a SATA DVD-R or R/W, I havent taken the time to look on the overall performance valuable factors of optical drives with reference to IDE vs SATA. i take advantage of one on occasion at artwork and its blazingly speedy whilst burning a dvd.