NEC 3540A not reading things proper

[mythuk]

Well below is my original question, I thought the issue I'm having would be resolved by sorting out the jumpers, and it hasn't. Well it sort of has.

Here's what's happened so far:
- installed drive in new PC, seemed to work ok
- burnt a DVD in NERO and it took ages
- discovered DMA wasn't enabled, so enabled it in Device Management
- despite the above, DMA did not enable on this drive, no matter what I did. My second drive, a DVD-ROM was working fine with DMA.
- not sure why DMA wasn't working so downloaded the latest nforce4 drivers from nvidia.
- Appeared to solve the problem, DMA now showing as enabled!!
- Now the drive won't read any discs :(
- Tried to fix this by using the correct jumper settings. I chose cable select
- The drive now reads what's on the disc (after a while) ie the contents, but it won't read what's ON the disc ie won't play the song/open the file.

Not really sure what to do next. I've updated the firmware to the latest 1.03 and had a look on google but there doesn't seem to be a general problem. the only thing I can think is trying another jumper setting or uninstalling the nforce IDE driver and trying to get hold of an older version.

The drive is IDE Master on Channel 1 and it's a Win XP system.

please help!

oh yeah, strange note, when the drive is reading the disc, or trying to, the drive LED and the HDD LED light on and off at the same time, totally in sync. V strange.


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I'm having trouble getting my NEC 3540A to work proper like. At the moment I don't have any jumpers in it at all. I thought this would default to cable select, but now I'm thinking it's causing problems.

Does anyone know the correct jumper setting for this drive, I'm after Cable Select or Master.

Also if anyone knows the same thing for the NEC 5800A that'd be just dandy

cheers
:thumbs:

[IAmATeaf]

On the top of the drive it should details the jumper settings, for most new or fairly recent motherboards just set it to Cable Select and let the cable take care of it, tis what I do.

[philyau]

it should be on the sticker m8, where to put the jumpler, also it will be engraved with MA|SA|CA


phil

[rwniel]

You should find it bottom/left on the manufacturer's sticker (with the connectors facing you). Here's a diagram - CDRLabs (http://www.cdrlabs.com/reviews/index.php?reviewid=271&page=Features)

It should have come jumpered for master (- the jumper immediately next to the IDE connector; 'cable' select would be the one farthest away from the IDE connector looking at it end on).

Robert

[mythuk]

cheers guys!

Didn't really want to take the drive out but I did and I think it's sorted (fingers crossed)

thanks again!

[IAmATeaf]

Disconnect the other drive and give it a go, also is the second drive also set to Cable Select?

If none of the above helps swap the IDE cable with another and see if that helps.

[mythuk]

ok had more of a fiddle and managed to get the drive to be detected properly again by removing the latest nvidia IDE drivers and reverting back to the ones from the Fatal1ty install disc. The only thing now is that DMA still won't enable on the drive so it's stupidly slow!!!

anyone know of any other IDE drivers I can use?

[mythuk]

still after decent IDE drivers :thumbs: