cannot connect 2 hard drives and 2 cd roms

[tlove1966]

Hi there. I have what seems to be ZP-6L PII Motherboard Rev: 4 The only thing I've found on the board is that it's by ZAPPA? Anyway. I'm trying to hook up 2 hard drives, and I've got a cd rom and a burner. whenever I try to connect all 4 only 3 will show. The IDE1 is fine, but the IDE2 is what seems to be causing the problem. I've changed and reversed the cables to make sure that wasn't the problem. Could it be a BIOS configuration? Because I think I've pretty much ruled out a hardware problem.

The BIOS is Award modular V 4.51PG
It's an Intel Celeron MMX @ 266 Mhz
and it has 164 Meg of ram

(if that's relevant)

Any input would be appreciated, other than the obvious; not using the second cd drive. Thanks.

 

[smah]

Are the Master / Slave jumpers set correctly on all 4 devices?

 

[Lemon13]

have you tried all combinations of devices on ide1/2 master/slave?
in bios you can enable or disable ide1/2, thats all.
did you check for a i/o memory conflict(ide2) in device manager?

some devices just wont function together, if you ruled out cable/jumper error you just have to live with it (and get rid of the cd).

 

[tlove1966]

All jumpers are correct and I've tried every combination on ide1/2, but I have not yet checked for a memory conflict in device manager. If there's nothing there, I guess I will just have to remove the other cd (that's not a big deal, just odd)

Thank you both for the advice.

 

[wunkunn]

For what it's worth . . . .
I use 2 hard drives, a CD writer and a DVD writer. I do this by putting one hard drive on each Ide bus jumpered as a single drive. On one bus I have the DVD writer and the CD writer on the other bus. Each of them is jumpered as a slave. The BIOS is set for Auto detect for the hard drives and as for the ROM drives, I show them as NOT installed.
They all work correctly setup like this.

The ROM's are not seen by the BIOS during boot up but are shown in Device Manager. I have used this type setup for several years. I currently use XP Pro but have used this with Win98 and ME.

Good Luck