Satellite 1130-z28: Cannot boot from portable drive

my Teac dw 224e drive from Toshiba Satelite 1130-z28 doesn't work. The problem in I've tried to replace it with 3 different types of cd rom drive and none was working.
The led lits, but I can't boot from them and windows doesn'n even recognize them. Is it possible my portable works only with the same kind of CD unit?

Hi
I assume the drive doesnt work because of wrong drive settings.
Its important that the drive supports right (master/slave/CSEL) settings
If the drive is not compatible the BIOS and OS will not recognize the drive properly.
Please note: The notebook drives dont have jumpers like on the desktop PC drives.
You cannot change the settings. You have to use the compatible drive device.

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