NEC 3500A DVD writer probs

[LondonEd]

hi all, just installed a KV8pro 3rd-eye, re-installed windows - now besides my IDE cable being too short to reach both DVDR drives, sometimes one of them (the NEC) isn't detected by BIOS, and I can't write to discs in it. The 3500a is, I'm led to believe a 16x writer, but in Cyberlink Power2Go, it won't detect discs that already have sata on them, or let me burn data (of any kind - files, video etc) to disc. I'm using the 2.18 firmware for the drive (official) & Philips 16x DVD-R discs, I've never had any probs with cyberlink's software before. anyone have a clue as to what it could be?

I did set the jumper on the NEC to 'slave' but it's got the 'master' cable plug, simply because of the cable length, could that be the problem? it still reads/copies from discs with no problem. I had 2.16 firmware, but updated thinking it would solve the problem.
Help!!

[LondonEd]

just to add to that, I can't try my other DVD writer, the cable isn't long enough...why oh why didn't A-Bit just swap round IDE1 & IDE2 on the board?!?

[Carlh]

The only time I have had this error myself was with the same DVD writer and the same board.

When installing the IDE drivers that came with the motherboard for some reason it wouldnt find the dvd writer - to get round this i removed the ide drivers that came with the motherboard and just used the generic windows ones.