put them on seperate ide bus. cd-rom on one ide and cdr on the other. i had a problem on data transfer with them on the same ide bus.using win 98se. everything was fixed once i switched ide lines and seperated them. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andre Abelian" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: [ot]: cd-rom and cd-r doesn' t work > Hi to all engineers, > > Finally after working on my pc for about 3-4 hours I give up. > CD-ROM and CDR are connected to same IDE bus one is master and > The other one is slave. > What did I check? > > 1. IDE itself works > 2. CD-ROM can boot from any bootable CD > 3. in windows 2000 says ( device is not working properly) > 4. I uninstalled and reinstalled same thing > 5. I always install and uninstall lots of software > 6. I have service pack 3 and other recommended updates from msn > > any idea will appreciate > > Andre > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.465 / Virus Database: 263 - Release Date: 3/25/03 -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.