Topic: IDE cdr
started by: Tattered
Posted by Tattered on May 17 2002,21:08
Which setup should I use? 2 IDE cables.. ( HDD/HDD & CDR/CD ) or ( HDD/CDR & HDD/CD ) ? will the latter allow me to copy cd to cd easier?
Danke.
Posted by RadioActive on May 17 2002,21:38
cd to cd will make no differencenow what you have to look at is do you really need both hard drives running as masters? if you only need to boot from one of them then you should put one hard drive as primary master and other ar primary slave. then put the burner on secondary master and regular cd rom as secondary slave. the only impostant thing to remember is that it's not necessary, but prefered to keep cd burners as masters. i had a lot of problems when i had a burner on primary slave and hard drive on primary master.
so in conclusion keep your hard drives on primary and cds on secondary. and burner should be a master
Posted by Tattered on May 17 2002,21:40
gotcha. burner==master.. I'll go switch them now.
Posted by infamous lm on May 17 2002,22:16
my burner's a slave. i have a dvd-rom as master. i have had no problems..
Posted by Beldurin on May 18 2002,00:28
The other consideration is: from which do you burn more often: CD or HDD? In my experience, its better when you don't cross channels (IDE1 to IDE2). Therefore, if you mostly burn CD's, then do HDD1+HDD2 on IDE1 and CDR+CDROM on IDE2.If you burn from your primary HDD, then it makes sense to do HDD1+CDR on IDE1, etc...
I've never heard of a problem caused by not having a CDR as a master, so I'm not sure about that one.
Posted by redpanic on May 18 2002,03:28
As in an earlier post - it all depends from where you plan to burn.I've run both configurations successfully - but decided on: HDD (Primary Master/IDE1) CD-ROM (Slave/IDE1)
CD-RW(Secondary Master) HDD (Secondary Slave)
Depending on how fast I try to burn - I find that there are fewer 'coasters' when you keep them separated.
If you have a system with enough power, then it might work just as well either way. In my case, I limp along @ 450Mhz.
-RP