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    IDE Card CD Drives
    « on: August 03, 2010, 03:03:54 PM »
    I have a Syba SY-PCI45004, 2x ATA/133 IDE PCI ITE8212 chipset, non-RAID59945456, I've tried three differnt cd drives Sony CD U5211, Toshiba TS-H292, Samsung SW-252 an Im not able to see any of them in XP.  

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    Re: IDE Card CD Drives
    « Reply #1 on: August 06, 2010, 07:55:15 AM »
    Sounds like that IDE card has gone South...
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    Re: IDE Card CD Drives
    « Reply #2 on: August 06, 2010, 07:57:09 AM »
    Can't wait to see where this thread ends up....

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    Re: IDE Card CD Drives
    « Reply #3 on: August 06, 2010, 12:46:30 PM »
    I predict at least two references to "not having enough time" and at least three uses of the phrase "an such" or "and such" by the end of page 2.
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      Re: IDE Card CD Drives
      « Reply #4 on: August 07, 2010, 06:25:08 PM »
      What?  I have a dvd drive connected to it an is able to see it.  Just wanted to see if these wont work first though is all.  Its an ATAPI or something like that.

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        Re: IDE Card CD Drives
        « Reply #5 on: August 10, 2010, 12:03:10 PM »
        This shouldnt take long to do.  Just not sure why its not seeing any of those. :-\