Dimension 8100 issues

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

1) Did you jumper the driver properly to Cable Select
2) Did you go into the BIOS and turn on the new drive? - it will work if set
to OFF, but slowly and unpredictably.
3) Is XP SP2 installed (required for proper operations of a 160GB on a D8100

"Hank6169" wrote in message
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I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

IIRC, the Dimension 8100 uses an IDE ZIP drive, right? Let's count the IDE
devices:

1. Seagate 160GB
2. the original hard drive?
3. CD-ROM
4. CD-RW
5. ZIP drive

The system will handle only four IDE drives, unless an auxiliary controller is
also installed. Is the data cable for the CD-RW attached? ... Ben Myers

On 14 Nov 2005 12:12:40 -0800, "Hank6169" wrote:

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

I owned two 8100 models and neither came with a Zip drive.

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
IIRC, the Dimension 8100 uses an IDE ZIP drive, right? Let's count the
IDE
devices:

1. Seagate 160GB
2. the original hard drive?
3. CD-ROM
4. CD-RW
5. ZIP drive

The system will handle only four IDE drives, unless an auxiliary
controller is
also installed. Is the data cable for the CD-RW attached? ... Ben Myers

On 14 Nov 2005 12:12:40 -0800, "Hank6169" wrote:

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

I've seen them in a lot of used Dells I bought and resold back in March... Ben

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:57:42 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote:

I owned two 8100 models and neither came with a Zip drive.

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
IIRC, the Dimension 8100 uses an IDE ZIP drive, right? Let's count the
IDE
devices:

1. Seagate 160GB
2. the original hard drive?
3. CD-ROM
4. CD-RW
5. ZIP drive

The system will handle only four IDE drives, unless an auxiliary
controller is
also installed. Is the data cable for the CD-RW attached? ... Ben Myers

On 14 Nov 2005 12:12:40 -0800, "Hank6169" wrote:

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

Interesting. Not standard, though.

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
I've seen them in a lot of used Dells I bought and resold back in March...
Ben

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:57:42 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote:

I owned two 8100 models and neither came with a Zip drive.

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
IIRC, the Dimension 8100 uses an IDE ZIP drive, right? Let's count the
IDE
devices:

1. Seagate 160GB
2. the original hard drive?
3. CD-ROM
4. CD-RW
5. ZIP drive

The system will handle only four IDE drives, unless an auxiliary
controller is
also installed. Is the data cable for the CD-RW attached? ... Ben
Myers

On 14 Nov 2005 12:12:40 -0800, "Hank6169" wrote:

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

My guess is that the IDE cable got knocked loose somehow...happens a
lot when fuddling around inside. Reseat the cable and see if it works
again. Or else try a different IDE cable, it might've gotten crimped
or knicked somewhere

Dan


On 14 Nov 2005 12:12:40 -0800, "Hank6169"
wrote:

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

Well, at least one company (now bought out by another) was hot to trot for ZIPs.
A bunch of Precision 330s and 340s bought in the same lot were all equipped with
ZIP 100 drives, too. But, yes. Not standard. And perhaps for all of us, a
technology that is quickly falling by the wayside, due to costs, speed, and
reliability. Remember the click of death? It is ironic that Iomega ZIPs pretty
much killed of SyQuest's removable disk technology which was faster, more
reliable, but really clunky. Now Iomega has had to move on from ZIPs due to the
availability of cheap hard drives and penny CD-R media for backup.

I think I may have had something to do with the demise when I was asked in the
early days of cNet to do a comparative review of Sysquest vs. ZIP drives by an
old friend who had taken an editorial job there. I liked the ZIPs because they
were floppy-sized and could fit in your pocket, and drives themselves were
quiet. Some Syquest media were about 5" in diameter and the smaller ones were
maybe a fat 4" in diameter, not good for pockets, and costing a small fortune.
Syquest drives made awful clanking and whirring noises when media were inserted
and ejected. I never tested or used the ZIPs long enough to experience the
click of death, and cNet published my review... Ben Myers

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 01:38:22 GMT, "Tom Scales" wrote:

Interesting. Not standard, though.

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
I've seen them in a lot of used Dells I bought and resold back in March...
Ben

On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:57:42 GMT, "Tom Scales"
wrote:

I owned two 8100 models and neither came with a Zip drive.

ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message
...
IIRC, the Dimension 8100 uses an IDE ZIP drive, right? Let's count the
IDE
devices:

1. Seagate 160GB
2. the original hard drive?
3. CD-ROM
4. CD-RW
5. ZIP drive

The system will handle only four IDE drives, unless an auxiliary
controller is
also installed. Is the data cable for the CD-RW attached? ... Ben
Myers

On 14 Nov 2005 12:12:40 -0800, "Hank6169" wrote:

I recently installed a Seagate 160 gb slave drive & all seemed to go
well except I lost the use of my CD-RW drive ie: computer no longer
recognizes it. My CD-R drive, fllopy drive & zip drive all seem to
work fine. I've rechecked connection several times but find no obvious
errors. When I boot, the lights on the CD-RW drive flash but it won't
play a CD. Any help would be appriciated. Thank you.

Thank you all. My amateurisness has been exposed for all to see. I
didn't know my system was limited to 4 drives. Anything special I need
to know about purchasing an auxiliary ide controller? I thought I
might find one on eBay. Again, thank you.

"Hank6169" wrote in message
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Thank you all. My amateurisness has been exposed for all to see. I
didn't know my system was limited to 4 drives. Anything special I need
to know about purchasing an auxiliary ide controller? I thought I
might find one on eBay. Again, thank you.



For IDE drives:

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/Produc...uctCode=130405


Buy the card new. It's inexpensive enough that ebay wouldn't save you much
and you might gain only headaches.

jmo.

Stew