Andre Abelian wrote:
> 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

 Perhaps disabling DMA support in your MB CMOS for this
IDE channel will help. CDRs often are PIO4, while CDR/Ws
are DMA.

Mike.

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