CD-RW HAS NO AUDIO

The Cable Select has been used for quite a while.  I'm not sure about the 4100 but if the original drive was strapped for cable select, the replacement should be too (your 8200 is cable select). 

However, if the drive is properly detected by the BIOS and Windows then it's not an addressing issue.

Newer PC's, such as your 8200 use "digital audio" with CD drives (the audio is digital via the IDE ribbon I/O cable).  However, older PC's used "analog audio" with a separate audio cable between the CD drive and the sound card (or on-board sound module) and most of these only have capabilities of audio from one drive, which may be the issue with your 4100.  In that case you will have to decide which drive you want to play audio CD's and connect the audio cable to that drive.    Some "Retail" SoundBlaster Live! cards do have provisions for two CD audio inputs (one is a "aux" input) and with those you can connect the audio from two CD's. 

I have a similar setup in my 4100. I'm not sure why you need to listen to audio CDs on your burner. I've got my CD/DVD-ROM set for digital audio and the analog cable plugged into it and I use it for all audio and video. However, both drives are set for digital audio and both running in DMA mode.

It would just be nice not to have to worry about putting a CD into the enabled drive.  When this CD-RW was in my 8200, I could play music on both it and  the CD-ROM.

What I don't understand is why, if only one drive can have audio capability, the CD-ROM (slave) has audio when the cnalog cable is plugged in to the CD-RW (master).

I think I will try jumping both to Cable Select and see if that helps.  If not, I will have to live with it, I guess.

Dimension 4100 -- P2 733 MHz -- 128 MB RAM -- 32 MB Nvidia video card.

The analog cable is not used except in certain situations, so its placement is not related to your problem.

I used analog cable to connect the CD-RW drive to the sound card (Sound Blaster Live! value).  There is a white connection (the primary one is black, used for the CD-ROM originally) on the board.  The sound does not have the volume that the CD-ROM has, but I now have audio on both drives.

 

I set both CD-ROM and CD-RW drives to "cable select" and left each with its own analog sound cable.  There is no difference inthe volume on the CD-RW, even though it is connected with the primary (original) analog cable to the sound board.  The CD-ROM, now connected to the second (white) slot on the sound board, still has very good volume (double the CD-RW drive).

Dimension 8200, P IV @ 1.7 GHz, Win XP Pro

The instruction with the DVD CD-RW drive (LiteOn Combo) said performance would be best with the DVD CD-RW set as "master" and the other drive (CD-ROM) as slave.  That's what I did, and they both work perfectly.