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add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 0 times) mushupork5 Profile | Email I am trying to add a normal 40 pin IDE CD-ROM to my i-opener. I bought the double connecter cable from badflash and trying to use it for a cd drive. I am using a 2.5-3.5 laptop drive adapter to go from 40 to 44 pins. Will this process work? The cd drvie has an external power supply. When ever I have both pluged into the i-opener, the i-ipener wont turn on. But when I unplug one, polwer works. Thanks for any help. 01-24-2002 11:12:09

RE:add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 0 times) *SF* Profile Be very Careful......alot of people have burnt up their I-Opener, by powering the connector on the Adaptor !!! 01-24-2002 12:27:27

RE:add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 0 times) mushupork5 Profile | Email i am having problems getting the system to boot up. has anyone had these same problems? thanks 01-24-2002 15:11:49

RE:add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 0 times) Kudzu Profile Mushu, what is your jumper configuration? 01-24-2002 15:14:14

RE:add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 0 times) mushupork5 Profile | Email i have the hard drive as device 1 and the cd as slave. It boots up now but the master drive is not found. I have tried setting the harddrive to device 0 and pretty much every combination. When the cd is not plugged in the i-opener detects teh hard drive and boots into windows 98. What bios settings do i need? Thanks 01-25-2002 11:08:45

RE:add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 0 times) mp3boombox Profile | Email disable the sandisk in the bios and that should SHOULD fixyour problem. 02-01-2002 21:04:43

RE:add 5.25 cd-rom problems (modified 1 times) Wild_Pencil Profile | Email It sounds like you've got a hard conflict. There's no option in the BIOS to "disable" the Sandisk -- it's usually just silently bumped off when you have a master and slave device detected. Doublecheck that your hard-drive is explicitly jumpered for "Master", and the CD-Rom is explicitly jumpered for "Slave". If it still doesn't work, you'll have to either find a different CDRom to use, or you'll need to disable the Sandisk in hardware -- either cut it off with a dremel (easier), or desoldering and lifting pins 37 and 39 (if I recall correctly..) Considering you're using a 40-pin IDE CD-ROM, I'd opt to find another CDROM drive. They're fairly cheap and commonplace these days. -WP 02-03-2002 01:22:41

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