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trouble with dvd and hard drive on sata

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I have just installed a samsung dvd rw onto a raid pci card my HD is already on sata from the motherboard but it will only recognise the dvd rw as another hard drive what have I done wrong please help

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Is th DVD-RW also SATA?

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I am guessing that your new DVD drive is also a SATA device, but, you must only have 1 SATA port on your mobo and that is currently being used by your hard drive? Do I have that correct?

If so, did you install the driver for your DVD-RW? And does that PCI card have a control panel that you can choose what type of device is connected to it?

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Yes the dvd rw is a sata device i did not install a driver for this the pci card has no control panal that i can find I have tried to accsess it with f4 but it will not open.

The Samsungs aren’t that great

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If this is one of the Samsungs many users have reported that the SATA burner is still seen as Mass Storage by mainboard BIOS’s. If you run a RAID Array, and you plug this in to onboard SATA controller the SATA RAID utility will see it as a HDD.

If you use a SATA PCI controller card, they you need to load up the PCI controller card drivers which will control the SATA DVD burner.

that’s about all I know about SATA DVD drives.

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