nuther cd drive problem

[Thomas]

You are joking ?! An IDE drive will never work on the floppy cable. Apart from that it does not even fit.

The A4000D has an IDE and a floppy controller. You need a floppy cable to connect the floppy drive to the floppy controller and an IDE cable to connect the CD-ROM drive to the IDE controller.

With the IDEfix software installed, any IDE CD-ROM drive should work on the IDE controller.

Bye,
Thomas

[Thomas]

Please check if the HDD is jumpered correctly (master).

Try to jumper the HDD as slave and the CD-RW as master.

Try to boot from floppy disk with only the CD-RW connected (first as master, and if it does not work, as slave).

If you've got some spare money you could buy a buffered 4way-adapter, connect the HDD to its first channel and the CD-RW to its second channel, both jumpered as master. Now you *need* IDEfix software for the CD-RW, but it might work.

If you've got even more spare money, you could buy a FastATA4000 controller to run the CD-RW. ;-)

Bye,
Thomas