This problem was observed in machines having independent cables too. When there is a cd rom and a writer in the system, both have to be in seperate ide channels for faster cd to cd writing. The writer has to be master so sec. master. This leaves primary slave for the cd rom.
I have a Secondary master (cd Writer) and secondary slave as the cd-rom, Though it works fine and doesn't make a complain about it on linux, Windowsxp seems to hang often. Do you think this could be the reason?
Raj
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