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should the cd writer go on the hard drive ide channel with the other cdrom drive on the secondary ide channel or on a seperate one with the other cd drive on the same ide channel as the hard drive?
What I have been told is to keep the CD's off the IDE cable that attatches to your primary hard drive (the one with the OS).
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I usually put the burners on the second IDE channel, set as slave if there is anouther cd-rom. I wound definatly NOT recommend putting a cd-rom (burner or not) on the same channel as the hard drive.
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Yeah, don't put it on the same channel as the hard drive. That could slow down the performance of your hard drive. put your dvd/cdrw/cdrom on the 2nd ide channel.
Always put the faster drive as master on the channel.
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However, if you direct copy CD's they should be on a seperate IDE channel. Putting them on the same cable causes buffer underruns. In the long run, it's a judgement call.
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When I copy cd's, I usually set it to save to the HD first, then copy to the cd. Seems to work best for me:)
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I always put burner on secondary as master and rom as slave on same cable.Rom is faster and have yet to have any buffer underrun problems with this arrangment.I looked at a brand new PC and this is how they where arranged
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I have the following setup, without any problems:
primary master: main harddisk
primary slave: cd-rom
secondary master: cd-rw
secondary slave: second harddisk
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I have the following configuration:
Primary channel 80 wire cable:
Master ATA100 HD - middle of cable
CDRW slave - end of cableSecondary channel 80 wire cable:
Master ATA66 HD - middle of cable
CD slave - end of cablemotherboard, is soltek 65kv2. My system flies, drives are detected properly as ATA100 & ATA 66, can direct copy CDs, no problems.
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