my IBM 8185 wont read my drives?

Question

i have bought a new case and its a tower i bought the case from IBM it doesn't say the model of the case and i put a serial ATA hard drive in it and it boots but it wont read my 2 dvd drives one is a sony dvd-writer drive and the other is a samsung dvd reader drive the jumper pins are set to cable select and i have one cable going to both of the drives and pluged it in to the blue and black ribbon cable socket spot and the computer doesnt read my drives i know this because im using ubuntu 10.10 and both drives work with ubuntu but i cant boot from any disk windows or linux PLEASE NO STUPID ANSWERS PLEASE I REALLY NEED HELP

thank you

Answer 1

If you are trying to boot from cd then its doesn't matter which os is installed on it.

first remove one drive by removing cable from it and make sure another is working or not & vise versa.

If both are working properly then just change your jumper settings keep first on master and another on slave.

If both are not working then check them by changing your connecting IDE cable

Answer 2

~Your cable might not support cable select so make one of your optical drives master and the other slave. this should then work.

If you can't boot from your optical drives then you may have to make one or both what ever you require the preferred one ahead of your HDD in bios boot order.

Answer 3

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