cd r-rw drive (works somewhat>make it work>DIES???)

[transporter]

ok i'll say it plain and simple. i have a philips cdrw800 drive. It used to work (somewhat). At first (aprox. two weeks ago) the bios found could fin and read that it was there. (Now the somewhat not working part) It was always seen as slave even when i had jumpers set to master. When i put it to cable select it still thought it was a slave. i switched to a spare dvd drive i had laying around. The dvd drive worked perfectly no matter what settings i put it at (so not a bad IDE slot on motho or something in bios). So i set my dvd drive to master and my cdrw drive as slave. Bios detected that Right so i tryed it.(Success)"I AM A GENEUS". Now a week after the bios won't detect the cdrw drive at all so does this mean my drive is toast or can i try something. "HELP ME OTHER GENEUSES"

[Deerpark]

Try only connecting the cdrw drive to the IDE cable.
Also try using a different power plug for the drive.
If the BIOS still can't detect it, I think the drive is toast.
You might want to try the drive in another computer (if possible) just to be sure.

[transporter]

i have tryed it with only cdrw on ide and i had gotten it from other comp i think it was working in there.

[patio]

That drive is at least 5 years old and maybe more...
It may have just gone to drive Heaven.

newegg has new DVD burners for about 40 bucks shipped.