Win2K and HP CD Writer 9100i

[Valafar]

When I try to install the CD Writer software, I get a screen saying that it can't find a suitable IDE channel for the drive. I have it as a slave off my secondary IDE, the master is my Memorex 48x CD ROM. The HP plays CDs fine, I just can't install any software for it. The Win2K site says the drive is compatible.

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ASUS CUSL2 P3 933@ 1078 512 CAS 2 Geforce SBLive x-Gamer Win2K 30 G Maxtor

[Jefomatic]

Try making the burner the master and the reader the slave . . .


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Dual PIII 1Ghz
Abit VP6 mobo
2 x IBM 45Gb Deskstars striped RAID 0
Plextor 16/10/40 CD-RW
Toshiba SW2002 DVD-RAM
Iomega 250Mb Zip
Elsa GLoria III Quadro 2 Pro 64 Mb video card
SB Live! X-Gamer 5.1 audio card
PCI SCSI card
PCI 1394 Firewire card
Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card
Windows 2000 SP 1
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[Sargnagel]

Maybe installing the drive as Master will help. I once installed a Plextor 12x/10x. At first I put it as a slave drive, but it wouldn´t work. As a Master it works fine.

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Dual PII266@300
Tyan Tahoe 2 ATX
224 MB PS/2 EDO
Voodoo3 2000 PCI (DX8a + Driver 1.03.00)
Promise U66
SB 32 PnP ISA
40 GB IBM DTLA 305040 only working @UDMA33
32x LiteOn CD-Rom
8/4/32 CD-Burner (HP 9110i)
Iomega Zip 100 (IDE)
15" Philips Brilliance 105A
Windows 2000 + SP1

[Mandorallen of Molynnr]

I've had that problem - have you tried downloading the latest drivers off HP's site? My problem was old driver related - it also didn't find the drive.

Hope this helps Valafar. What do you think of Windows 2000 so far?

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Knight of the OC Crusaders.

Don't worry be happy.

[Valafar]

No luck. Tried it as master. I only found the firmware update on the HP site. Aside from this, and a couple of other problems, I am happy with Win2K.

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ASUS CUSL2 P3 933@ 1078 512 CAS 2 Geforce SBLive x-Gamer Win2K 30 G Maxtor

[Sargnagel]

If I remember correctly there was an article at http://www.theregister.co.uk several months ago. It was related to HP-CD-Writers and W2k. I think you must install W9x and apply the HP-Firmware-Update. After that W2k should be able to find the drive.

But a solution to this problem must be on the HP-Homepage somewhere.

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I found the article at theregister I was referring to:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/13341.html

I hope this helps.

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Dual PII266@300
Tyan Tahoe 2 ATX
224 MB PS/2 EDO
Voodoo3 2000 PCI (DX8a + Driver 1.03.00)
Promise U66
SB 32 PnP ISA
40 GB IBM DTLA 305040 only working @UDMA33
32x LiteOn CD-Rom
8/4/32 CD-Burner (HP 9110i)
Iomega Zip 100 (IDE)
15" Philips Brilliance 105A
Windows 2000 + SP1

[This message has been edited by Sargnagel (edited April 20, 2001).]

[Valafar]

I looked at the site and HP said that Win2K drivers are fine. I could BUY updated Adaptec drivers that will work with Win2K. ***? To heck with them. I will slap the HP in my baby rig and get a better drive for mine. Buy updated drivers, what kind of crap is that, I wonder if they make persons buy the BIOS flash for their systems also.

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ASUS CUSL2 P3 933@ 1078 512 CAS 2 Geforce SBLive x-Gamer Win2K 30 G Maxtor

[Sargnagel]

Who is buying drivers when you can get them for free???
http://members.nbci.com/aspe_me/for_all.zip

These are named "ATAPI ASPI Driver (Win ME/NT/2000)".

The link to these drivers is on a german website: http://www.disc4you.de/kompendien/cd/aspi.html

Works fine. Before installing these drivers the ASPICHECK Utility from Adaptec detected no ASPI-Drivers. But after installing the above drivers, I could start burning cds.

ASPICHECK Utility from Adaptec:
ftp://ftp.adaptec.com/software_pc/aspi/aspichk.exe

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Dual PII266@300
Tyan Tahoe 2 ATX
224 MB PS/2 EDO
Voodoo3 2000 PCI (DX8a + Driver 1.03.00)
Promise U66
SB 32 PnP ISA
40 GB IBM DTLA 305040 only working @UDMA33
32x LiteOn CD-Rom
8/4/32 CD-Burner (HP 9110i)
Iomega Zip 100 (IDE)
15" Philips Brilliance 105A
Windows 2000 + SP1