I hope your primary master is your hard drive!!!

Check the jumpers again at the rear of the drive..... on BOTH optical
devices. If one is set as CS (Cable Select) that would throw out the
setting of either Master or Slave on the other one......
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Windows Technologies, Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows


"iggystooge" <paulfincannon@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I switched my DVD writer, a Toshiba SD-R5112, from one computer to
> another. The burner worked fine with my last computer, which was less
> powerful than the new one (it runs XP, with Pentium 4, 1.5 Ghz, and 256
> RAM). It works fine to watch DVD's and listen to and burn CD's, but I
> can't get software to recognize it as a burning device. I
>
> The BIOS reads something as the primary master with text saying
> ST340816A-(PM). Their is no slave. The secondary master is Toshiba
> DVD-ROM SD-R5. I assume that the primary is my CD-ROM, although I don't
> know, but the secondary is definitely the DVD burner. However, when I
> check in "My Computer", it only shows one removable storage drive
> (besides the floppy), which is drive D:. Normally I have drive D:
> (CD-ROM) and drive E: (DVD burner). But drive D: references the DVD
> burner instead of the CD-ROM. I checked the Toshiba site, and it says
> that I don't need a particular kind of driver. Is this something to do
> with the master/slave, of DMA? I have tried both Nero 6 and 1Click,
> which worked fine in the past, but won't recognize the new DVD burner
> now. Anyone out there know what I missed? Thanks!
>
> Iggy
>