USB to ide adapter + Toshiba laptop dvd drive

**carprowler** · 06-21-2004, 12:19 AM

Hi

I've recently completed my car computer and I used the famous usb to ide adapter. When I boot up the dvd drive, (Toshiba SD-C2502), doesn't show up in my computer. When I unplug the usb cable and plug it back in, it shows up and works fine. I searched and searched for a solution with no results.

Thanks for the assistance.

Carprowler

Asrock M266A MB
P4 1.5 processer
512 MB DDR ram
40 gig HD
Toshiba SD-C2502 laptop dvd drive
USB to ide adapter
Niveus pc remote control
Belkin wireless KB and mouse
Linksys wireless-G network adapter
400 watt inverter
12 amp hour 2nd battery
95 amp battery isolator
Lilliput 8" touchscreen display

**eugenen** · 06-21-2004, 09:40 PM

XP I bet. XP not being relaible enouh with my USB stuff was the final straw that switched my to Linux. Sometimes it will show up in device mangler but won't show up as a disk, that was really screwy.

**choyak** · 06-25-2004, 12:49 AM

Yeah, I got gatesed a few days ago. My three USB2IDEs had a 120GB 3.5" hard drive, DVD player, and a 60GB laptop drive, and when I moved the kiosk PC (not carputer!) the gates XP steadfastly ignored my feeble attempt to plug thses devices in. I had to remove the hub, and plug each device separately into the USB port on the kiosk PC to allow detection. After doing this, I plugged them into the hub, and VOÍLA, everything functioned again.