IDE blues on DX38BT

[aiman]

Hiya,
I've just finished fixing in my DX38BT intel mobo (an upgrade from a measly VIAP900). Since I am still waiting for my new SATA disk, I am trying to make do with 2 IDE disks. As you may know, the DX38BT has only one IDE channel - due to this, I cannot connect my DVD-rom device (IDE).

Problem is, if I put the DVD-rom on slave IDE with the Hard disk as primary, it simply won't work - regardless of the jumpering combination. Has anyone else come across this problem on the DX38BT mobo? If so, please let me know how to fix it.

[uncle bob]

have you try using cable select rather than master/slave?

would be worthwhile trying with the dvd=master/hdd=slave

failing that, have you got a usb pen drive?

[aiman]

Yep, tried Cable-select, but with HDD-Master/DVD-rom as slave. Lemme try what you've suggested. Will keep you posted.

Thanks for you prompt reply.

[Agent]

Yep, tried Cable-select, but with HDD-Master/DVD-rom as slave. Lemme try what you've suggested. Will keep you posted.

When using Cable Select, you should set the jumpers to cable select and not master/slave.
While it should work, I've seen times when its caused issues (A MSI board I had did it )