Recently out of lazyiness, I bought a sony VAIO media center, as I had no problems with them in the past and I enjoy the sony brand, however the drive, a DW-D22A DVD RW drive, is actually a rebranded Lighton drive. It is recognized as being seen in BIOS. Its shown in device manager, however, it has an error 22, which, since that means that I turned it off,  makes no sense as it does not enable me to turn it on again. I would imagine it has to do with IDE since after removing my other drive (HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8163B) and plugging the DW into the other connecter on my cord, it runs fine. It doesn't appear to be a resource conlflict, though I have yet to flip my drives and see if they operate together reversed as master and slave, but this is a problem

make sure you have all connections correct, secondary ide channel as master with the appropriate jumber setting.

unistall the ide channel in device manager and reboot.

(in reply to Baderade)