Dual DVD drives problem

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 2:45 pm

Ok I have two NEC DVD/everything drives installed in a comp.. problem is for example I want to leave my BF2 DVD in the 1st or master drive so I don't have to take it in and out but I want to stick in another say movie dvd or music CD in the 2nd drive and play it.. I can't remember the settings I need to adjust to make it auto play like the master drive?

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:32 pm

Sava700 wrote:Ok I have two NEC DVD/everything drives installed in a comp.. problem is for example I want to leave my BF2 DVD in the 1st or master drive so I don't have to take it in and out but I want to stick in another say movie dvd or music CD in the 2nd drive and play it.. I can't remember the settings I need to adjust to make it auto play like the master drive?

Use BF2 DVD Mini image ...problem solved

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 3:45 pm

If you have tweakUI you can set auto play in that.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 5:01 pm

well I was thinking of a normal windows setting.. it see's it but i puta DVD in and it won't auto run like the master drive will.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Sat Feb 18, 2006 9:59 pm

Right-click on the drive, properties, autoplay settings.

zooner · Post by **zooner** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 8:49 am

http://www.tomandjodi.com/sg/bf2image.rar

mount the image file using daemon tools.

ya can't play it online with a legal serial number, so I don't see any ethical issues here. you paid too much for it to leave it in your drive.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sun Feb 19, 2006 1:39 pm

ehh I don't think most understand the question here lol I just want the 2nd DVD drive to run just the same as the first.. ignore BF2 or whatever else I said lol

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:08 pm

Sava700 wrote:ehh I don't think most understand the question here lol I just want the 2nd DVD drive to run just the same as the first.. ignore BF2 or whatever else I said lol

bump... any answers? lol

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 7:56 pm

Scott wrote:Right-click on the drive, properties, autoplay settings.

did you try this yet ?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 6:07 pm

Sava700 wrote:bump... any answers? lol

Scott answered your question, Sava.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 7:23 pm

yeah I did the auto play thing.. no luck I need it to run just like the master drive but independent from the other.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 9:12 pm

*throws hat into ring*

looks like this might be a tough one, i'm still looking at search results, but this might be a good starting point (look towards end of this thread) might be a prob w/ a startup app link

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:11 am

Bump...

Did you try the solution offered at the end of that link (thread)?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:15 pm

ghettoside wrote:Bump...

Did you try the solution offered at the end of that link (thread)?

naw ran into another problem working on now... but autoplay works on drive one..but doesn't on drive two.. I want both drives to operate independent from each other.. play a CD in one and play a DVD in another for example.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 5:31 pm

i'll gooogle it up some more tonite. i'll post here if i find a solution specific to it, i know that link wasn't exactly the same prob...just wanted to see if you'd fixed it before i start googling again.
good luck w/ the other prob

mmione · Post by **mmione** » Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:53 pm

why not put the BF2 disk in drive 2?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 3:35 am

mmione wrote:why not put the BF2 disk in drive 2?

Well I'll try that but its not exactly what I mean lol I'd like to get it with the BF2 or whatever CD/DVD in that 1st drive then put say like a movie DVD in the 2nd drive and watch a movie from it or access it like you would normally.

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:10 am

Do you have them on the same channel? Are the jumpers set one as master, one as slave, or are they using cable select?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:22 am

ghettoside wrote:Do you have them on the same channel? Are the jumpers set one as master, one as slave, or are they using cable select?

each drive is set up right.. one as master and another as slave..

ghettoside · Post by **ghettoside** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 12:10 pm

Sava700 wrote:each drive is set up right.. one as master and another as slave..

I know you know what you're doing, it's just that I saw something in googling on this so figured I'd ask.

I'm still looking. This is a good one...

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 3:33 pm

I'm still not exactly sure if I got a solution to this problem yet LOL I've tried a few different things but I think if I explain it more.... well for example: BF2 DVD in Drive 1.. playing in game.. Music CD in drive 2 playing music in the background say through media player or whatever. Otherwords both drives working independent from themselves and vise versa.. I want just drive 1 and 2 not Master and slave.

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 4:36 pm

Sava700 wrote:I'm still not exactly sure if I got a solution to this problem yet LOL I've tried a few different things but I think if I explain it more.... well for example: BF2 DVD in Drive 1.. playing in game.. Music CD in drive 2 playing music in the background say through media player or whatever. Otherwords both drives working independent from themselves and vise versa.. I want just drive 1 and 2 not Master and slave.

You can devote an individual ATA channel to each drive and make them both master (if you have the channels...). I don't think that Windows cares if they are master or slave. Performance wise it wouldn't matter since game discs only spin up to check the media then sit there.

I probably don't understand your problem or goal here...

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:33 pm

Kyle wrote:You can devote an individual ATA channel to each drive and make them both master (if you have the channels...). I don't think that Windows cares if they are master or slave. Performance wise it wouldn't matter since game discs only spin up to check the media then sit there.

I probably don't understand your problem or goal here...

Neither do I. I think he's been smoking too much crack lately.

Are you trying to listen to music while you play BF2?

Kyle · Post by **Kyle** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 5:37 pm

How about this...

Image the game disc(s), Rip the audio CDs, and stop using slow media!!!

That's what I do with my gaming rig, I never have to change CDs.

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:14 pm

well I'm using this as a example of game and music disk.. could be two Music CD's one in each drive.. I don't care lol I just want the drives to work the same and at the same time if I wanted them too. But as of right now I'm having a issue of the 2nd drive even working at all.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Mar 02, 2006 8:32 pm

Replace with a known good drive and see if it works, even if its just a cd drive.