How do I add a second DVD drive?

19 May 2011 | Mene

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Dear Freepers,

Can someone please give me some tips on installing my second DVD drive correctly. I have the ribbon cable end on the primary DVD RW drive and it works fine. The second DVD drive is on the middle ribbon cable connector.

The jumper on the back of the second DVD drive is on "slave". The compute recognizes the second DVD drive, but I cannot play a DVD in that drive. Any media player I run and try to "open" the movie on the second DVD drive does not "see" it. Any suggestions?

[VeniVidiVici]

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[DGHoodini]

I once had a problem like this, and the only work around I could find, was to put each DVD drive on a seperate ribbon cable. 1 HDD and 1 1 DVD one a ribbon cable, and the same with the other HDD & DVD. The two differenbt DVD drives just would not cooperate on the same ribbon cable.