🚀 go-pugleaf

At long last I went and did it - I bought a Mitsumi CDR4802TE CD-Rom
re-writer.  

Can I get it going?  Can I heck!

I have had a Panasonic reader (CR-585) in slave mode on my secondary IDE
port for over six months without problem.  Following the instructions I
have relocated that as a slave on my primary IDE port, and installed the
writer as a master on the secondary port.

Trouble is, Win98 will not see either.  The BIOS does, and correctly
reports them as CD Rom mode 3, but Windows tells me that both the
primary and secondary IDE ports have problems.  Doesn't stop it reading
the HDD though!

If I load the DOS drivers (MSCDEX and all that) then Windows will see
both drives and let me read from both, but still reports that it cannot
find them and that I have problems with both primary and secondary IDE
ports.  If I look at properties of both drives in this state, Windows
reports that it is viewing a CD-Rom but it does not know what type.

Packet CD of course also reports that it cannot find a writer.

Motherboard is a Jetway 5TXBR2 (Intel chipset) flash upgraded to version
A2.0, with 64Mb SDRAM and a Pentium 233MMX.

I also note that since I have installed the new drive, things seem to
happen a lot more slowly, and I've seen more of the blue screen of death
(unstable...) over the last two days than I have in the last six months!
In particular - and I don't know why - if I try to look at a floppy disc
in Windows Explorer, more often than not the system crashes.

Can anyone help me before my PC becomes a very expensive window
breaker!!

(Also copied to alt.cdr)
-- 
Andrew W.
Harrogate, UK
woody@tangon.demon.co.uk
g1uxp@gb7cym