Re: Pure DOS boot disks can't see my old IDE DVD-ROM drive?

Ant wrote:
> http://forum.msi.com.tw/index.php?topic=122897.0
>
> IDE controller on the mobo.! I got its driver to work, but the old
> DVD-ROM firmware upgrader still doesn't see the IDE drive. Damnit.
>
> Is there a way to have these old firmware updaters to work?
>

My memory is foggy now, but one I used in the past, was sensitive
to where the drive was plugged in. On the old motherboards
with two IDE connectors, the drive could be master or slave on
either IDE cable. Some firmware updaters only worked, if the drive
was in a particular place (like master on the secondary cable).

Also, for questions like this, you should be looking to cdfreaks.com
or cdrinfo.com. Use a search engine like this one, set the domain
to one of those two, and search on your DVD drive model number.

http://www.altavista.com/web/adv

Paul