Problem adding extra CDROM to system

[ranting]

System: Athlon 650, Asus K7V, 256 MB Apacer RAM 133 MHz, Hercules GeForce 2 w. 64 MB RAM, LS-120 drive, Creative Live 1024 soundcard, Promise ATA66 controller card, HD: 1 Seagate 20.5 GB & 1 Maxtor 19,5 GB, CDROM: 1 Mitsumi 2801 TE CDR, 1 Toshiba 24x.

Seagate is on mobo primary channel as single drive.

LS-120 is on mobo secondary channel as master w. Mitsumi CDR as slave.

Maxtor is on Promise primary channel as single drive

Toshiba is on Promise secondary channel as single drive


When I add one more CDROM to the system, I start having frequent crashes no matter on which controller and in which position (slave/master) I place it.

Anyone have a clue for me ?

ranting

 

[robisc]

Not for sure but my guess would be that with all those peripheals you need more juice, I would upgrade my power supply to something >300 watts like an Antec or something similar.

 

[ranting]

Sorry, my bad. My casing is an Aopen HQ08 w. a 300 W power supply.

In the meantime I've switched just about *all* the drives around, and so far it seems to work (but you never know