Replacing CD Drive with DVD drive

[Keith Clark]

> > If it is a new unit then it may need to be connected with an 80-wire
> >> cable - is the cable the old 40-wire type or the 80-wire type (or is it
> >> SATA)?
> >>      
> 
> You haven't answered this question :-) .
> 
> If the HD is "old" and accepts the 40-wire doesn't mean that the new DVD 
> will accept and work OK with it.
> 

40 Pin wire

> 
> 
> >>    From the above I gather that you only have the one HD and that the ROM
> >> is therefore the slave to it on the same cable (which plugs into the
> >> motherboard). Is the HD configured as Cable select or Master? (Cable
> >> select means the unit becomes either Master or Slave depending where on
> >> the cable the unit is connected.) *OR* is the HD on its own cable and
> >> the CD/DVD on a separate cable?
> >>
> >>      
> > DVD drive is master and HD is slave on the same cable.
> >    
> 
> No - switch these around. The HD should "control" the CD/DVD not the 
> other way 'round. There is a reason for calling them Master and Slave 
> :-) . (The DMA of the HD is a lot faster than the CD/DVD and you want 
> the faster unit to be Master.)
> 

Ok, I have switched it now.  DVD is still CS on its own cable as master.
HD is Master on its own cable as master.

Still it does not see the DVD

Keith