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Optical drive troubleshooting

by Randy
(Lowell, IN. USA)

I'm currently building a computer. My problem lies with the optical drive. Everything in the pc is new except the optical drive.

I'm using an old CD/RW that connects by an IDE connection.

The motherboard only provides an IDE connection for the HD and the Floppy Disk.

So I had to buy an IDE to SATA adapter, to connect my Optical Drive.

When I powered on the PC everything is normal and it went right to the BIOS screen.

My problem is that the BIOS does not detect the optical Drive even though I re-checked all connections and enabled all modes in the BIOS for the connection.

Could it be a bad adapter, or a bad drive?

The drive worked when I took it out of the old pc.

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Sep 05, 2009
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Hello Randy,

That seems a little strange, normally floppy drives have a seperate and different cable than the IDE drives.

Your floppy cable should be smaller and have some of the wires in the cable twisted, four wires on the end connector this tells the BIOS that the drive connected there is the first drive in the chain, the A: drive.

Then your IDE cable shoud have three connectors, the end ones maybe black or blue but the middle one should be greay. The greay connector is for the IDE hard drive. The CD would use the last connector. The other end connects to the IDE interface on the mother board.

I have a couple of those SATA to IDE connectors and the didn't work either. I had to buy an IDE card and put it in a slot to get my other drive trays to work.

See my hardware reviews if you are going this route for more IDE interface connections, the one I bought is junk...

Hope this helps...

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