Sceond IDE CD-Rom drive not sean in XP

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Roger Stalcup

I have a ASUS A7M266 MB with AMD Athalon 2000 XP CPU,
WinXP Pro w/SP1 The system has 2 80GB HD on 1st IDE and 2
CD-Rom's on Second IDE and a 3rd CD-Rom on the USB, no
matter what I do I can not get XP to See the second CD rom
on IDE 2, It will see the Channel 2 Primary but not
Channel 2 Slave, The drives are set correctly infact if I
switch the jumpers prim to slave and slave to prim it will
see the other CD rom but never both. when booting the BIOS
see's both CD's and correctly ID's them, at one time I had
two CD's on this system but one went bad and I removed it
now that I have a replacement I cannot get XP to see both.

It is not the drive because they work with a hitch on the
other systems I have. The see's both and ID's both at boot
so I don't think it is the IDE Channel. this has stumped
me for more than a month and I have been unable to get
around this. Please any help would be very welcomed
 
I found the answer, I uninstalled the secondary IDE
ATA/ATAPI Controller (Device Manager) rebooted the system
and when WinXP started it reinstalled the secondary
controller and boom both Devices on the secondary channel
are now available and work correctly.

thanks for the help.
 
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