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Thanks to joe, ajzchips,NickS for your replies. The original (dead) cdrom rom drive was a TEAC 220E slimline. The new cdrom drive is a TEAC 224E slimline with no documentation. The laptop has no manufacturer markings, but after doing an FCC ID search, it would appear to have been made by SPICA compu...

Thanks for the reply NickS. Do you mean in the bios or on the mobo? There are a couple of blocks of dip switches on the mobo, but without a manual i`m a bit wary of touching these. The replacement drive is identical to the original apart from being 24x instead of 20x. I read somewhere else that it m...

There are no jumpers on my notebook drives.
I thought all notebook drives factory set to cable select?
That`s why i thought it must be set up from the bios.
Please correct me if i`m wrong, if not, how else can i set the drives up?

Hi All! I`ve just replaced a cdrom drive in my notebook, because the original one died, now when i boot up neither drive is recognised! However when i disconnect either drive, the other is detected. I think it`s a master/slave problem but i can`t see any way of changing it in the bios. Any help will...