You should set both CD drives as Cable Select, not master/slave.  Cable select is what systems are strapped as when they leave the factory.  Not many systems use the old master/slave stapping.

Hey now Jack .. are you saying I`m an "old system"? ...lol

Scott,
(if needed) Click on the CD/RW gif in my post and scroll to Section 15, articles 13 & 14, may help.

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Thanks again Predator...the tool in section 15 article 13 works great, but for some reason whenever I restart the computer windows switches the cdrw drive back to PIO.  So I tried article 14's tip for deleting the registry value, but that didnt seem to have any effect.  I suppose the worst case senario is that I just have to run that program before I burn anything.

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After attempting a test burn I discovered that even though the device manager is reporting my CDRW is in UDMA mode, it is actually running in PIO.  I tried burning at 24x and it took 11 minutes, so I guess I'm back to square one!  BTW, I set both drives as CS and that hasnt helped.  I am going to put my old burner in the 4600 and see if its DMA is recognized. 

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Message Edited by Scotpunk on 10-25-2003 01:02 PM

Thank you for the suggestion fireberd, but I actually had them both as cable select initially...sorry i should have mentioned that. 

Right now I'm going through Predator's page....thanks m8!

Well my old CDRW (which is recognized fine as UDMA in my other comp) would only work in PIO mode on the 4600.  I hope there isnt something wrong with the dell motherboard.  maybe reinstalling windows will help...Im at a loss as to what to do now!

Reset the BIOS to default configuration.  Save and exit.  Boot back to BIOS and verify that the secondary IDE channel is set to use DMA mode (AUTO) if available.  Do you see both optical drives?  Boot back to Windows.  Go to Device Manager and remove the SECONDARY IDE CHANNEL under IDE ATA controllers.  Reboot PC and Windows will reload the driver.  Check to see if both devices are running in DMA mode.

F.

Wow, I missed it in the BIOS.  I was poking around in there earlier just to make sure the UDMA was on, but I never noticed the area where you can select what your Slave Secondary IDE device was.  I wasn't able to reset the BIOS to default, but I changed the slave device to Auto instead of OFF.  UDMA was always "on".  When I restarted the BIOS both Secondary devices said CD-ROM device.  I went to XP, and without reloading the IDE Channel driver, it was working.  Thank you so much!!  Finally both devices are working properly.

 

Brian

thanx for the new suggestion! I'll give it a try in a bit!

w0w, all you had to do was turn the slave channel on! who would have thought ;)

Thanks a lot for your help!!  I can finally throw my Dell box away...i was keeping

it just incase the comp was messed up, but as usual it was user error!