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If I remove the media from either drive, then rplace it with new media, then type directory it shows the directory of the media I just removed and not the directory that is on the cd or DVD that is in the drive. This has been going on for MANY months. I have to reboot my machine whem I want to read new media correctly. A fellow on one of the help forums said my machine was not refreshing the drives but the guy never said how i Could do that. Any one know.? I'm thinking of buying a new motherbd combo to solve that but I can't make up my mind whether I should Go back to Pentiums or stick with AMD. I never had this Kind of trouble when I had Pentiums. Any advice?

Strange. Have you tried uninstalling the drives from the device manager? Maybe even the IDE channels in the device manager too. Can't hurt. Reboot and windows (assume is XP?) should install everything automatically. Hopefully will reset all settings.

I had a problem the other day where my DVD drives were running seriously slow. Turns out that XP turns DMA mode (ie. fast) off if writes reject 6 times (dodgy blank disks) and reverts to PIO (slow and conky). Doesn't tell you though. And you can't switch it back to DMA either (says it does, but doesn't stick). Just uninstalled IDE channels and windows resorted everything on a reboot.

Cheers