ASUS DVD drive not working on shared IDE cable?

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Have a mate who's trying to install two hard drives, a CD ROM and DVD reader
under Windows 98. For some reason the ASUS DVD drive doesn't want to share a
cable with either of the other hard drives. All drives are set to cable
select.

Has anyone else had a problem like this?

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
 
Smeagol said:
Have a mate who's trying to install two hard drives, a CD ROM and DVD reader
under Windows 98. For some reason the ASUS DVD drive doesn't want to share a
cable with either of the other hard drives. All drives are set to cable
select.

Has anyone else had a problem like this?

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
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Make sure the hard drive is at the end (black connector) of the cable
and the DVD at the middle (gray connector). Otherwise use the jumpers.

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Smeagol said:
Have a mate who's trying to install two hard drives, a CD ROM and DVD
reader under Windows 98. For some reason the ASUS DVD drive doesn't
want to share a cable with either of the other hard drives. All
drives are set to cable select.

Has anyone else had a problem like this?

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
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then jumper them manually. it's almost always easier to do this once you
know what you're doing as cable select can be caused to fail by lots of
things...
 
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