CD Drive not recognized

Well, I was having the same problem for about a week, until today. I
reinstalled the optical drive I was going to use in my new DIY PC, and went
into BIOS and went to drives. I was getting a message or prompt or wtf
everytime I booted the PC saying drive not recognized, press F1 to continue
or F2 for Setup. I'd press F1 and continue. I thought it was the parallel
cable strap I was using, in the wrong positon. But no, it was that the second
optical drive wasn't recognized in BIOS. I had to enable the primary slave
drive. When I did that, the F1 and F2 messages stopped during booting.
Now both drives work and no problems.
Good Luck,
attilathehun1
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attilathehun1


"LadyDungeness@Fish.Net" wrote:

> I've got a Sony laptop with an external CD/DVD drive. It's Firewire. I hooked it up and it powers up and whirs, but the
> laptop won't recognize it. What should I do?
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