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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done
this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
On 9/2/2011 11:26 PM, John wrote:
I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. The interface should have nothing to do with the HD indicator. How did you determine that SATA was the cause? Did you find something on the web that said that SATA causes this? Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Some optical drives do, some don't. It doesn't matter what interface is used, it's been like that since they were introduced. It's also possible that this might be something in the motherboard BIOS Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? Since you didn't give any vital info on the make/models of the SATA DVD drive, the IDE DVD drive, or the motherboard; there's no way of going past that but guessing. -- "**** this is it, all the pieces do fit. We're like that crazy old man jumping out of the alleyway with a baseball bat, saying, "Remember me mother****er?" Jim “Dandy” Mangrum |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
On Sep 3, 2:26 am, John wrote:
I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? I thought they all closed when first receiving power -- sort of a industry default start up, ROM logic state thing. Never seen or at least can't recall one that didn't out of at least 10 drive makes I've owned. Plenty of weird problems, also, only never one which was falsely triggering the HD activity lite. You probably meant the DVD's lite, which isn't right if that's what's going on more or less regularly when no disc or an unaccessed disc in the tray is present. |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:25:30 -0700, Nobody (Revisited) wrote:
On 9/2/2011 11:26 PM, John wrote: I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. The interface should have nothing to do with the HD indicator. How did you determine that SATA was the cause? Did you find something on the web that said that SATA causes this? Searching for "hard drive led light continuously flashing" I came across a number of instances where a SATA CD/DVD drive was the cause. This was then an easy problem to locate by stopping the drive using USB Safely Remove, or disconnecting the drives from the sata cable. Once the drive was disconnected the hard drive activity light stopped continuously flashing. |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:19:11 -0700 (PDT), Flasherly wrote:
On Sep 3, 2:26 am, John wrote: I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? I thought they all closed when first receiving power -- sort of a industry default start up, ROM logic state thing. Never seen or at least can't recall one that didn't out of at least 10 drive makes I've owned. Plenty of weird problems, also, only never one which was falsely triggering the HD activity lite. You probably meant the DVD's lite, which isn't right if that's what's going on more or less regularly when no disc or an unaccessed disc in the tray is present. First,I should apologise for not making myself clearer. The drive will automatically close if booting form cold, but not if restarting using restart. Normally this is the way I would use an image boot disk, using the restart from within Windows. I do mean the HD activity light, not the DVD drive light. With a Sata DVD drive installed the HD led would continuously flash, this seems to be quite a common problem. |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
On Sep 3, 2:33 pm, John wrote:
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:19:11 -0700 (PDT), Flasherly wrote: On Sep 3, 2:26 am, John wrote: I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? I thought they all closed when first receiving power -- sort of a industry default start up, ROM logic state thing. Never seen or at least can't recall one that didn't out of at least 10 drive makes I've owned. Plenty of weird problems, also, only never one which was falsely triggering the HD activity lite. You probably meant the DVD's lite, which isn't right if that's what's going on more or less regularly when no disc or an unaccessed disc in the tray is present. First,I should apologise for not making myself clearer. The drive will automatically close if booting form cold, but not if restarting using restart. Normally this is the way I would use an image boot disk, using the restart from within Windows. I do mean the HD activity light, not the DVD drive light. With a Sata DVD drive installed the HD led would continuously flash, this seems to be quite a common problem. I've had my share of problems, too, but it's an older MB. Warm or cold boot wouldn't be one of them - if everything's fresh *and* working. I've ATA-IDE drives that mysteriously go out over a few week's time while running W/XP, that variously begin to malfunction up to the point they'll no longer eject the tray from their front panel. Also SATA that'll conflict with one ceasing to work. Nothing really wrong with the drives, either. I have to open the case and physically remove their connectors, bring the rest up, shut down and reconnnect them in order to get something essential like a boot CD utility to work. Been limping along for years like this, since it started happening. Before that I've run up to 4 DVD units largely without incident, probably NECs. It's all Optiarc/Sony or LG these days, though. Recall sending my first LG I noticed dropping out, back to Newegg. I'd "marked" it where nobody would see, told them it had "issues" - they turned around and sent the same unit back to me for a replacement. Oh well. Nearer now to having totally migrating everything to HDs for USB docking stations. . . .Quite the common problem -- the fat lady with the monkey in her lap is singing . . . OK, I give up. I'll still be needing *a* working SATA boot DVD unit on future systems, but beyond that I'm done with the industry. No more BlueRay money from me and no more DVD units or disks. They can go the way of the floppy. |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
"John" wrote in message .. . On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 08:19:11 -0700 (PDT), Flasherly wrote: On Sep 3, 2:26 am, John wrote: I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? I thought they all closed when first receiving power -- sort of a industry default start up, ROM logic state thing. Never seen or at least can't recall one that didn't out of at least 10 drive makes I've owned. Plenty of weird problems, also, only never one which was falsely triggering the HD activity lite. You probably meant the DVD's lite, which isn't right if that's what's going on more or less regularly when no disc or an unaccessed disc in the tray is present. First,I should apologise for not making myself clearer. The drive will automatically close if booting form cold, but not if restarting using restart. Normally this is the way I would use an image boot disk, using the restart from within Windows. I do mean the HD activity light, not the DVD drive light. With a Sata DVD drive installed the HD led would continuously flash, this seems to be quite a common problem. One thing you haven't told us, is whether the IDE interface is attached to the motherboard chipset, or is on an auxiliary eSATA controller, such as a JMicron or Marvell. I have two systems in which the only IDE ports are connected to auxiliary eSATA controllers. One is a JMicron and the other is a Marvell. In both systems the DVD drawers close when the auxiliary IDE controller BIOS is initialized. This occurs with both hard and soft reboots, and indicates that the DVD receives the drawer close command from the IDE controller. If your DVD is connected to the IDE port of an eSATA controller check your BIOS settings for how it starts the auxiliary controller. |
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On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:26:54 +1200, John wrote:
I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? Anyone else wish the DVD had power to open the drawer before booting the machine? Well.........it wouldn't need constant power. You could have a spring loaded drawer, but springs are moving parts and we know moving parts can fail. |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
Metspitzer wrote:
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:26:54 +1200, John wrote: I have recently changed the internal DVD player from Sata to IDE. I done this because I got fed up with the hard drive activity light flashing all the time. Everything is fine apart from one minor problem - if I want to use a boot disk I have to manually push the drawer in at boot up, whereas the old Sata DVD player closed the drawer automatically. Is there a way to get the DVD drawer to close automatically when starting with a boot disk inserted? Anyone else wish the DVD had power to open the drawer before booting the machine? Well.........it wouldn't need constant power. You could have a spring loaded drawer, but springs are moving parts and we know moving parts can fail. This is why I use the F8 popup boot menu on my computer. Turn on the computer. Press F8 in the BIOS, and 20 seconds later, the boot menu shows, including the DVD drive. (On my other motherboard, you press F11 for this function. Motherboards vary in the key used.) (An example of a popup boot menu is shown here. As seen in BIOS...) http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/a...n/boot_pop.jpg Now, open or close the optical drive drawer, as needed. The computer power is on, but booting will be delayed until a selection is made in the BIOS boot menu. Using the cursor keys, indicate to the computer you want to boot from DVD etc. Job done. Paul |
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Automatically close DVD drawer at boot up.
Metspitzer wrote:
Anyone else wish the DVD had power to open the drawer before booting the machine? Well.........it wouldn't need constant power. You could have a spring loaded drawer, but springs are moving parts and we know moving parts can fail. Not particularly something I use all that often, but when I need to, I just hit the pause key after I turn on the computer, then open the optical drive normally. Once the media is inserted, I close the tray and hit the spacebar and the boot process continues. Jon |
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