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DVD drive operates without a disk

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tatar

Flightless Bird
Windows XP SP3
I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and
Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on
Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert
a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it?
 
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glee

Flightless Bird
"tatar" <afe@ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Windows XP SP3
> I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave
> and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double
> click on Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not
> ask me to insert a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can
> I correct it?

I see the same here. I open My Computer, double-click my master optical
drive and receive a popup message to insert disc.
Double-click my slave optical drive and it just opens a folder window.

My guess is that this is "normal" behaviour, at least on PATA optical
drives (which is all I have here...hard drive is SATA).

--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
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http://dts-l.net/
 
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Etaoin Shrdlu

Flightless Bird
On 4/3/2010 2:35 AM, tatar wrote:
> Windows XP SP3
> I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and
> Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on
> Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert
> a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it?
>
>

I have two optical drives on the secondary IDE channel and I get the
"Please insert a disc" message for both. Have you verified that the
jumpers are in the correct position on each drive?
 
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WaIIy

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:14:05 -0400, "glee" <glee29@spamindspring.com>
wrote:

>
>"tatar" <afe@ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> Windows XP SP3
>> I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave
>> and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double
>> click on Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not
>> ask me to insert a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can
>> I correct it?
>
>I see the same here. I open My Computer, double-click my master optical
>drive and receive a popup message to insert disc.
>Double-click my slave optical drive and it just opens a folder window.
>
>My guess is that this is "normal" behaviour, at least on PATA optical
>drives (which is all I have here...hard drive is SATA).

Mine does that too. Everything works just fine.
 
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl,
tatar <afe@ersoy.co.uk> typed:
> Windows XP SP3
> I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE
> cable as Slave and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any
> disk inserted if I double click on Slave I see the drive
> figure as the Address but it does not ask me to insert a
> disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I
> correct it?

That's a tricky one, believe it or not. Your symptoms are
mostly typical of many people, myself included, but they both
work properly, right?
I ordered my new machine with two optical drives installed
and that machine asks you to insert media regardless of which
one gets asked. They're IDE and both on one cable, but I
didn't pull out the units to see whether they were
slave/master/auto or what. The closest I cam on the other
machine was to put them both on one IDE with master/slave
settings. Anything else and one or the other drives would
cause an error.
Google has a lot of informaiton on this and the answer
seems to depend on the cpu, chip set, IDE version and a lot of
other things. I never did figure it out. I'd suggest spending
some time with Google and see what you can come up with. IIRC
dual was good as part of the serach terms.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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Don Phillipson

Flightless Bird
"tatar" <afe@ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Windows XP SP3
> I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and
> Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on
> Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to
insert
> a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it?

The chap who assembled my custom PC in 2005 told
me the Master should be the R/W drive placed at the end
of the IDE cable and the RO drive should be (jumpered)
Slave in the intermediate position.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
 
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Ken Blake, MVP

Flightless Bird
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:49:02 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
<e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:

> "tatar" <afe@ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> > Windows XP SP3
> > I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE cable as Slave and
> > Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without any disk inserted if I double click on
> > Slave I see the drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to
> insert
> > a disk into the drive. What is happening and how can I correct it?
>
> The chap who assembled my custom PC in 2005 told
> me the Master should be the R/W drive placed at the end
> of the IDE cable and the RO drive should be (jumpered)
> Slave in the intermediate position.


Did he tell why he said that? I'm not an expert on hardware, but as
far as I know, it makes no difference, and he's not correct.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP (Windows Desktop Experience) since 2003
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Twayne

Flightless Bird
In news:bq4fr5trudkjbha9c0rmrvvaomej8ji4l9@4ax.com,
Ken Blake, MVP <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> typed:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:49:02 -0500, "Don Phillipson"
> <e925@SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> wrote:
>
>> "tatar" <afe@ersoy.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:e1UP6Aw0KHA.264@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>
>>> Windows XP SP3
>>> I have two DVDs BenQ DVD-RW connected to the end of IDE
>>> cable as Slave and Pioneer DVR-A18L as Master. Without
>>> any disk inserted if I double click on Slave I see the
>>> drive figure as the Address but it does not ask me to
>>> insert a disk into the drive. What is happening and how
>>> can I correct it?
>>
>> The chap who assembled my custom PC in 2005 told
>> me the Master should be the R/W drive placed at the end
>> of the IDE cable and the RO drive should be (jumpered)
>> Slave in the intermediate position.
>
>
> Did he tell why he said that? I'm not an expert on
> hardware, but as far as I know, it makes no difference, and
> he's not correct.

I saw that same instruction in a couple places when an RW and
just R optical drives were involved. The only explanation was
that R was more similar to a regular drive than an RW which
had specific needs. Never fully understood any of them
though.
Next time, if there is a next time, I think I'll check out
the externals - USB connected seems to work better and the
USB3 is sure going to provide plenty of bandwidth. Right now
at least there isn't much price diff between internals and
externals - just like with external backup drives. I know
one guy has 3 of them stacked; one for music and the other two
for copying back & forth, as I do also, esp with backups to
DVD every quarter.
Must be lots of wiggle room built into their profit
margins.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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