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I have installed that NEC ND 2510a drive into my computer but heres my problem.

To install the drive i took the ide cable from the back of the original drive and its power supply as well, i put the case back together, powered it up, and the drive installed it self and i burned four disks to test it out.

Now I purchased this cable from newegg when i got the drive

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 089&depa=9

Because i thought that i could put the dvd burner onto the slave and put the original drive onto the master connection.. well that didnt work. So i thought maybe the cable was bad, and i noticed the original IDE cable that came with the comptuer that was in the back of the original drive had a slave connecter as well, so i put the slave into the dvd burner and then i connect the master to the cd burner (original drive) and started up the computer. The dvd drive still worked but the cd drive would not, the indicator on it just pulsed and the drive made funny noise.

Do the two drives need to be on seperate channels or what? And do i have the right kind of cable for what im trying to do ( place 2 drives on one IDE channel, because my computer has no free IDE connectors on the mobo.

My DVD player / CD burner are on separate channels. I also have 1 SATA HDD. I have 1 more IDE connector remaining. 1 more SATA connector as well.

Do you think if i remove the floppy IDE connecter and place the old DVD/CD burner drive on it, will it work.

...only one way to find out...

I need to have my PC open to answer that lol. Looking at it makes my brain work so good for some reason.. LOL and its easier so I can actually see and give you a logical response.. I may open it tmrw if u dont have it working by then.. bye im going to sleep

2005 wrote:I have installed that NEC ND 2510a drive into my computer but heres my problem.

To install the drive i took the ide cable from the back of the original drive and its power supply as well, i put the case back together, powered it up, and the drive installed it self and i burned four disks to test it out.

Now I purchased this cable from newegg when i got the drive

http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDe ... 089&depa=9

Because i thought that i could put the dvd burner onto the slave and put the original drive onto the master connection.. well that didnt work. So i thought maybe the cable was bad, and i noticed the original IDE cable that came with the comptuer that was in the back of the original drive had a slave connecter as well, so i put the slave into the dvd burner and then i connect the master to the cd burner (original drive) and started up the computer. The dvd drive still worked but the cd drive would not, the indicator on it just pulsed and the drive made funny noise.

Do the two drives need to be on seperate channels or what? And do i have the right kind of cable for what im trying to do ( place 2 drives on one IDE channel, because my computer has no free IDE connectors on the mobo.

In my experience I have noticed some MB's are very picky as to what is master and slave. First of all, if you haven't already done so, never put the devices jumper to cable select, it will help in the long run. Second of all I hear you made the CDRW master and the DVD slave, try switching them. Make the DVD master and the CDRW slave (and change the jumpers to match. Also make sure you use the correct connectors on the IDE cable for master and slave. Let me know if this works.

Oh yeah, that's exactly how mine is set up! DVD master, CD-RW slave! *pats Directive*

Make sure you have the jumpers set correctly for slave and master settings.

-Jason

So 2005, have you fixed it yet?

No not yet, i have to take it apart sometime because i cant get at the jumpers unless i take the drives completely out and i need to move the drives around.. the way it is now i can only connect the dvd burner as a slave.