CD Drive will not read

I can not read CD's on my computer. I have tried 3 different drives that I
know are good, since they work on another system I have.

I can put a hard drive on any of the IDE cables connections and they work
fine, but the CD Drives will not work. I have tried all combinations of
Master-Slave configurations, but no luck.

The system does find the Drive during booting and even shows it in MY
Computer. But when I try to open it in My Computer, I get the message that
the drive is unavailable.

This is a P3 computer running W98.

Is there something that a CD drive uses on the IDE cable or power supply
connection that is not used by a hard drive that could cause this problem.
Of course, I have gone into device manager and deleted the CD Drive and even
the IDE controllers and re-installed them, but it still doesn't work.

Any help would be appreciated.

In article <411177a9_2 RemoveThis @newspeer2.tds.net> in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-
rom on Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:55:27 -0400, Robert Harrison
<bobh RemoveThis @wolv.tds.net> says...
 > I can not read CD's on my computer. I have tried 3 different drives that I
 > know are good, since they work on another system I have.
 >
 > I can put a hard drive on any of the IDE cables connections and they work
 > fine, but the CD Drives will not work. I have tried all combinations of
 > Master-Slave configurations, but no luck.
 >
 > The system does find the Drive during booting and even shows it in MY
 > Computer. But when I try to open it in My Computer, I get the message that
 > the drive is unavailable.
 >
 > This is a P3 computer running W98.

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