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Issue with putting newer IDE DVD drives in older laptops from 98/99

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First post, by CoolDoomer

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I thought of adding a DVD drive to my laptops and I got 2 HP UJ-840 slim drives made from 2005 and 2006.
I put both of those in a Toshiba Satellite 320CDT and a Compaq Armada 1750 but both of those don't recognize in BIOS the DVD drives.
The old CD drives are recognized easily.

Is there some sort of ATAPI/IDE incompatibility going on?

Reply 1 of 2, by CoolDoomer

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I might guess there would be incomplete ATAPI support on those old laptops that those new DVD drives use.

Reply 2 of 2, by rasz_pl

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master/slave/cable select. I remember similar thread before here, ahh here it is: Re: Problem with use of modern ATAPI device in 1990s Toshiba 470cdt / 490xcdt / 530cdt and similar retro laptops

https://github.com/raszpl/FIC-486-GAC-2-Cache-Module for AT&T Globalyst
https://github.com/raszpl/386RC-16 memory board
https://github.com/raszpl/440BX Reference Design adapted to Kicad
https://github.com/raszpl/Zenith_ZBIOS MFM-300 Monitor

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