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How to setup two SATA DVD drives on one computer?
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<blockquote data-quote="thunderbird985" data-source="post: 2269121" data-attributes="member: 576718"><p>I just bought a new DVD RW SATA drive for my computer. It already had a DVD-Rom SATA drive installed. The HD is also SATA.</p><p></p><p>Here's the problem. BIOS doesn't recognize the second DVD drive...for now, I have switched out the ROM and put in the RW, which is on port SATA1. I want to have both drives running so I can copy personal DVD's in one step (The ROM drive reads while the RW drive writes). </p><p></p><p>I have 4 SATA ports. HDD on port 0, DVD drive on port 1. They are different colors (I don't know if this matters like it does for RAM) listed here:</p><p>0: Blue</p><p>1: Black</p><p>2: White</p><p>3: Black</p><p></p><p>I have tried putting the secondary drive on both 2 and 3, but they are not recognized by BIOS and do not read any discs when running Windows Vista. They do operate however; open, close, attempt at reading. Any ideas?</p><p>How do I set master/slave on a SATA drive? There are no pins for jumpers or any extra slots like on a hard drive.</p><p>The motherboard is a</p><p>Dell Asus M2N61-AX</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thunderbird985, post: 2269121, member: 576718"] I just bought a new DVD RW SATA drive for my computer. It already had a DVD-Rom SATA drive installed. The HD is also SATA. Here's the problem. BIOS doesn't recognize the second DVD drive...for now, I have switched out the ROM and put in the RW, which is on port SATA1. I want to have both drives running so I can copy personal DVD's in one step (The ROM drive reads while the RW drive writes). I have 4 SATA ports. HDD on port 0, DVD drive on port 1. They are different colors (I don't know if this matters like it does for RAM) listed here: 0: Blue 1: Black 2: White 3: Black I have tried putting the secondary drive on both 2 and 3, but they are not recognized by BIOS and do not read any discs when running Windows Vista. They do operate however; open, close, attempt at reading. Any ideas? How do I set master/slave on a SATA drive? There are no pins for jumpers or any extra slots like on a hard drive. The motherboard is a Dell Asus M2N61-AX [/QUOTE]
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