Have you tried jumpering the CD-ROM drives reversed,
or moving one to the other EIDE channel. This "might" tell you if
the drives can "get along" together...
I have a similar problem with an ACER CDRW on cold boots and
it was suggested by Mary Wolden I might have a power problem.
My "boot failures" of the CDRW drive are very intermittent, are yours?
I have not done any testing with one drive removed (yet)...
My current workaround is to watch booting, and hit the reset switch
at the BIOS password screen when the CDRW is acting "flaky".
Hope this helps.
                    Rick Glazier
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Herbst"
> The problem is this. When the computer is cold booted, the Kenwoods
> caddy tray immediately opens up and only can be closed by manually
> pushing it closed [ it reopens itself a few seconds later, again]. When
> windows98 is fully loaded, I have no use of the Kenwood drive at all,
> the light just flashes on the drive but the button that opens and closes
> the caddy will not work. Of course, windows shows that I have only the
> Plextor drive at this point. Here is the kicker, if I then select
> "shutdown & restart the computer [ no cold boot] the Kenwood drive works
> perfectly.
snipping: The Kenwood works perfect when used alone.

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