I have 3 burners set up as follows:
IDE1 Master and Slave
IDE2 Slave
With no disk in the drive, when I click to open the drives in Win xp-sp2, the IDE1 Master and the IDE2 slave ask me to insert a disk. The IDE slave will open with a blank window, as if a blank disk were in the drive.
I really don’t care which way things work, but would like them all to work the same way.
Any thoughts will be appreciated.
Why do you have a drive alone on secondary as slave?
No.
master is a HDD
Either use a better mobo (no joke) or connect the ODDs on an extra non-RAID IDE controller.
If the HD on secondary is your boot drive, you should move it to primary master. Then re-configure the others as you wish and see if the problems persist.
A better option would be to move the HD to a PCI card (not the opticals).
As to what happens when no disc is in the drive, does it really matter?