Cdrom Hard drive IDE setup

Warning!!! You should never install mother board specific IDE Hard Disk Drivers. You should!Have a mother board specific Hard disk Dual PCI IDE Controller though. On my Abit KT7 it was Via and on my ECS K7S5A it's SIS as per, Setup

Win9X/ME
I cannot speak for any specific Cdr/w drive but this may help. Also make sure if your burning software like Nero 5.5 you can set the burn speed and test it. The Lite-on I have does a standard data Cd in around 7 mins or less.

Please note:There are disadvantages to having the Cdr and a Normal CD on the Same IDE chain if you like to burn Cds,"On the Fly".

My Cdr/set up in Win98 with Nero burning software,no problems.
Cdrws do not like to be slave devices so here's my set up.

IDE 1
IBM hard drive Master
LG 52X CD Slave
All jumpers set accordingly
IDE2
Lite-On 24X10X40 CDR/W

Bios Settings

Standard Cmos Features
IDE 1
Master to Auto or user(for my Hard Drive)
Slave to user and press enter to detect for my Standard Cdrom 52X
IDE2
Master to user and press enter to detect(or none)for my CDR/W

Note:I've found it best to change the Auto Detection of the Hard drive/s and CDrom drives to User and then press the enter key to manually auto-detect the drives as sometimes the Auto detection on boot mis-reads the device's BIOS information. Integrated Peripherals Section
All IDE ports set to auto-detect (U)DMA mode

The only special drivers installed are for my VIA mother board chip set was the Via Dual PCI IDE Controller and the SIS Dual PCI IDE Controller for my ECS K7S5A board and for Win98 with the ECS board the Win98 DMA patch from the SIS drivers pack and the AGP driver update.
All hard drive drivers are plain vanilla windows drivers.
Cdroms seen in the Device Manager and DMA enabled on both.

Once correct BIOS settings have been made boot to Safemode and remove ALL entries you find under the Cdrom section in the Device Manager and re-boot and let windows correctly re-install them and update the registry.
If you still have problem click here,
Cdroms
Compatibility mode
System clean up
Clean up Device Manager
Look for a NOIDE(or noide) entry in the registry and if found remove but know about win98 reg back ups for safety. Warning!!! If you are running Win9x/ME and your CDr does*NOT*have,"Burn proof"technology you should use the free Cacheman software preset for CD writers to avoid,"Buffer Under Runs",
http://www.d-sheppard.f2s.com/mode.htm
Under the Vcache section.
HTH*<:)

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