DVD Drive Probs

[Final Maxim]

hey all. my mate has given me 2 dvd rewriters as he doesnt need em. plugged one in and tried booting up and it says atapi ( i think) not compatable, press f1 to continue. so continued to here. it aint opening and aint coming up in My Computer.

do these need drivers or should it be plug n play?

will i need to install drivers before pluggin it in or should i download drivers for it after? cheers

 

[Final Maxim]

whoops wrong section

 

[sargey]

Have you checked that the jumpers are correct on the back of the drives?

How are they set? Master, slave or cable select?

 

[Munson]

Are they on the same IDE channel? And as above - are the jumpers set properly? Each IDE channel has a primary and a slave. Stick them on the same ribbon and make sure one is set as a master, and one is set as slave (you do this with the jumper pins on the back)

 

[Lee]

From your PM mate the drives look fairly new so support won't be a problem.

As has been said, check the jumpers, but also check you are using a new 80 pin IDE cable and it's connected to the drives in the correct order. Blue to the motherboard, Black to the primary drive and grey to the secondary.