Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 what does the message on boot up..... 'secondary slave drive ATPI incompatable' mean??That is my CD rewriter.... is that what could be causing my problems?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 have you set it up as a slave to a HDD?? this generally causes the aforementioned issue.Set the CD-ROM up on your Secondary IDE channel (your other hard drive ribbon cable) either as a primary, or as a slave to another CD-ROM, Zip Disk, CD R/W, etc. Only slave hard drives to other hard drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 no I have my DVD as master and my CD rewriter as slave on the same cable. Could this be what is causing the slow downs and freeze ups?? It is happening again now and I am in safe mode right now :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 the cdrw should be the master although that shouldn't affect functionality.Are all cables fitted securely as a loose connection could well cause freeze ups and slow downs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 As his lordship states above. Also if you are running it on the secondary channel is it connected to a 80 pin IDE cable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 cdrw and dvd's don't actually need an 80 pin cable as they only transfer data at 33mbp/s. HDDs require 80 pin cables as they transfer data much quicker thus the need for more pins and cables!sorry monkey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 80 pin?..... it is a flat one like the others and no it isn't a floppy cable. I checked all the connections today all as snug as a bug. I have always had them this way around. It only just happened too by the way. I have rebooted a couple of times tonight and it has been ok Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 nel it caused problems on my msi board the bios would not accept a old atpi cdrw,I had to junk it as the bios would not load it and windows searched for it,junk it.by the way the msi bios was set to check the IDE drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 cdrw and dvd's don't actually need an 80 pin cable as they only transfer data at 33mbp/s. HDDs require 80 pin cables as they transfer data much quicker thus the need for more pins and cables!sorry monkey!No probs. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Ummm....NOT 80 pin.It's a 40 pin with 80 Wires to the max 133 for HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 I shall whip it out tomorrow then... see if it is any different Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 nell, there are two types of flat ide cables. One is 40 pin and is used for cd/dvd drives and the other is 80 pin and is used for HDD's. They are visibly different in appearance, 40 pin - 80 pin - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 you could try switching them over as suggested,how old is the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 I shall whip it out tomorrow then... see if it is any differentI beg your pardon. :o By the way what does it say in yours, just out of interest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 nel just take the side off and pull the power plug out and IDE cable,no need to take it out.turn off before you do this :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Grim Reaper Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 if i was you i would take each drive out in turn and check which one was possibly causing the problem. It could be that the problem will rectify itself with a deinstall and reinstall of the drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 DMA mode 5 for a dvd player,you sure thats not a h/drive.whoops yes it was :blush: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 hangon nel what you got on the primary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 mine says 6 on the primary and 2 on the secondary............ is that wrong?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Mine also says 2 on the secondary channel.You probably have a better, faster hard drive than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 my h/drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 was just looking at LLs pics... I got the wrong cable in!!! :blush: here is a pic of my device manager thing for my primary doo dah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 thought so,whats them yellow ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyhanger Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 Looks as if could be a usb device? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest nellie2 Posted November 2, 2003 Report Share Posted November 2, 2003 it was a USB root hub.... all installed now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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