DVD drive operates without a disk

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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?
 
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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).



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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?
 
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 10:14:05 -0400, "glee"

wrote:



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>"tatar" 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).



Mine does that too. Everything works just fine.
 
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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.



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Don Phillipson

Carlsbad Springs

(Ottawa, Canada)
 
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tatar 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`
 
On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:49:02 -0500, "Don Phillipson"

wrote:



> "tatar" 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.



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

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In news:bq4fr5trudkjbha9c0rmrvvaomej8ji4l9@4ax.com,

Ken Blake, MVP typed:

> On Sat, 3 Apr 2010 11:49:02 -0500, "Don Phillipson"

> wrote:

>

>> "tatar" 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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