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April 18th 06, 08:14 AM
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Old cdrom
and there was much shippage I'm not sure why XP would not like a CDROM drive that 98 said was fine. THe only thing I can think of is DMA support, which is usually turned OFF in 98 (you have to manually enable it), It's something to check, anyway, if that old CDROM hasn't met its maker yet. DMA support is controlled in different spots in 98, as in 2000/XP. In 98 it is controlled with the device, ant in 2000/XP it is with the IDE channel. Both in the device manager. XP defaulted to PIO mode with the old CDROM. I tried multiword2 (MW2) DMA available on the secondary controller for it, no change in perfomance or reliability. -- Jonny Sometimes it's just one of those things where you have to shake your head and wonder at what the problem was. In any case, it appears to be flaky hardware. Did reverting to 40 wire cabling make any difference? 
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