"I had my TDK-Cdrw drive set as the primary slave with my hd. I powered down and changed both the hd and slaves pins and gave the cd drive its own ide cable"
??? Why did you change the HD pin?
In this configuration the HD should be MASTER on IDE 1. The CDRW should be MASTER on IDE 2. Both units should be on the END of the IDE cables.
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