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Quick question that I hope someone knows the answer to. My DVD drive stopped writting DVD's a while ago (several system reinstalls have proved that it is the drive and not a driver error/conflict) So I got hold of another drive. Fitting was easy however it appears that there is something funny with the ide chain configuration in this laptop. The old drive was set on cable select, however the new drive is set as slave. because of this neither the HD or the DVD drive are accessable.
Does anyone know how to switch dvd drives to cable select to make them work (I tried putting jumpers on the HD to change it between a master and slave but with no joy.)
Thanks in advance
John Walker

Hi John,
Normally, slim design CD/DVD drives are preset by the manufacturer but it is apparently possible to change the setting if you really want to. Please check out the following post :-
http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=5946&messageID=20727#20727
HTH

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