"T Shadow" <knone@zilch.com.invalid> wrote in message
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> Check your Master/Master w/o Slave jumper settings. A while back I
> installed
> a WD as master on my secondary channel and the DVD burner that was slave
> on
> the primary channel stayed on all the time. Changing the WD(on the
> secondary) to Master w/o slave corrected the problem.

It's a SATA drive, as I mentioned. No master/slave option. Good guess tho.

> If wrong guesses are such a problem try Google.

Tried that, came here as a last resort, but I'll keep Googling. Thanks!

Jon