CD-ROM Drive Not Detected When Connected To Motherboard On-Board Primary/Secondary IDE Port

CD-ROM Drive Not Detected When Connected To Motherboard On-Board Primary/Secondary IDE Port

Problem:

CD-ROM drive cannot be detected after CD-ROM drive installation if the CD-ROM drive is connected to your motherboard on-board Primary or Secondary IDE port.

Cause:

By default our CD-ROM drive installation will not add in the /P switch for SBIDE.SYS statement in CONFIG.SYS. The reason is the driver will perform an auto-detect of the resource used by the SB IDE port. However, this function will fail if the CD-ROM is connected to your motherboard on-board IDE ports because the auto-detection will only auto-detect the IDE addresses/IRQs on the SB IDE port. This results in the CD-ROM drive not being detected.

Solution:

Force the resource settings by adding in the /P parameter for the IDE driver settings in CONFIG.SYS:

DEVICE=C:\SBCD\DRV\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:170,15 (Secondary)

DEVICE=C:\SBCD\DRV\SBIDE.SYS /D:MSCD001 /P:1F0,14 (Primary)