I have been trying unsuccessfully to get two crdw drives to work completely in on PC. One drive is actually a DVD-RW/CDRW and the other is a DVDROM/CDRW drive. Both made by Sony.
In short, with both drives enabled in device manager, neither will read an audio cd. Disable one and the remaining can read it fine. Both drives read data discs and DVD's without conflict, only audio cd's present a problem.
These drives have moved on the IDE bus to every location except Primary Master with the same results. It doesn't matter if they are on different buses or how configured (master/slave).
Sony support reports this is common, but can't offer suggestions other than make one a primary-slave and the other secondary-master.
I didn't know where else to post and thought someone here might have come accross this problem as well.
Thanks in advance....Randy