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Nov 21, 2009, 7:03 PM
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no DVD drive found? SOLVED
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> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:48:30 -0700
> From: Greg Woods <greg [at] gregandeva>
> Unclear what really fixed the problem, but I opened up the box. Remember
> the story about the proverbial car where you had to pull the engine to
> change the headlight bulb? That's what computer cases are like for me.
> To remove the hard drive to check jumper settings, I had to pull the
> memory chips. To get the DVD drive out, I had to pull the power supply
> (but fortunately could avoid having to disconnect all the power cables).
> Once I did that, the jumpers were correct: the DVD drive was jumpered as
> slave, the hard drive as master. The only odd thing was that the blue
> end of the IDE cable was plugged into the DVD drive and the black end
> into the motherboard. The blue color of the motherboard connector
> suggests that this is backwards.
Aha!
> What I ended up doing was mounting the hard drive in the top section of
> the bay closer to the DVD drive (which required a mounting bracket that
> I happened to have). This is probably why the cable was "backward" to
> begin with; before I moved it, the hard drive was too far away from the
> DVD drive for the cable to be plugged in "forward". After moving it, it
> would fit the "right" way.
> At any rate, after spending an entire evening doing all this, the DVD
> drive now works! And my very first attempt to play a DVD from within
> Mythtv also worked. Haven't tried to rip any DVD's yet, the hardware
> work took all the time I had.
> I wasn't the one who built this box, so my ego won't be insulted here.
> But does it really matter which end of the IDE cable is connected to the
> motherboard? Aren't they just straight-through cables? Maybe the reason
> the problem is fixed is that something wasn't quite seated right?
> Although I tried reseating the cable connections before I actually
> pulled any drives and it didn't help.
Oh yes, it matters. It is -not- a straight-through cable!
See, for example, http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/if/ide/confCable80-c.html,
in the bullet point labelled "detection".
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