aegis
Whatever your reasoning, there's no way it would take twice as long to burn when the DVD drive is on the same cable, under the same circumstances otherwise, including being connected to an 80 wire cable in both cases.
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eeplelife
You have not stated what brand name system model, or if your system is generic, what mboard make and model, you have. Knowing that would reveal a lot of things about your system that could determine how long it takes to burn.
E.g. We're assuming your mboard can support at least ATA 66 (UDMA66) drives - if it was made in 2000 or so or later it can.
If that applies, if you are using any hard drive capable of ATA 66 / UDMA 66 or greater, it/they must be connected to an 80 wire cable too in order to achieve its/their max rated speed. Hard drives made since about 1999 have that capability.
If the computer came with a CDrom (only) or DVDrom (and CDrom, only) or a CD burner, or an older (more than 2 years or so) DVD burner drive, if it is on a separate data cable, the cable probably has 40 wires.
If the system came with a hard drive capable of ATA 66 / UDMA66 or more, the hard drive is probably connected to an 80 wire cable.
If your hard drive is connected to an 80 wire cable, your optical drive to a 40 wire one, it is obvious when you look at them the 80 wire one has twice the wires.
40 wire cables can be any color but are usually grey.
80 wire flat cables can be any color, but generic ATA 100 / ATA 133 ones are often yellow, ATA 66 ones are often grey.
Virtually all data cables with round cables between connectors with 40 pin connectors, which may have been installed on a more recent computer, are 80 wire and are probably ATA 100/133.
80 wire data cables
- obviously, have 80 smaller wires - count the wires, or some of them.
- come in two types, either of which can be used - ATA 66 cables have connectors with no blocked pin holes - ATA 100 / ATA 133 cables have one blocked pin hole in each connector so that they can only be installed one way on the drive or mboard header which has one pin missing - there may be obvious printing on the cable - e.g. ATA 66 or ATA 100 or ATA 133.
IDE data cables always have 40 "pin" (pin hole) connectors, whether the cable has 40 or 80 wires; on some 80 wire ones one pin hole is blocked in the connectors - I've never seen that on 40 wire cables. The connectors look the same externally, but the ones for 80 wire cables have 40 (or so) more connections on the cable side of the connector in the middle of the connector.
40 wire cables usually have connectors of a single color, often black.
The three connectors on a three connector 80 wire cable are at least two colors (e.g. on some ATA 66 ones), often three - if there are two colors the single connector of a color goes to the mboard. There are some 80 wire cables that have two connectors, of two colors, for connecting to one drive.
The most common color for the connector for the mboard end on an 80 wire cable is blue. It almost always doesn't matter which of the other connectors you connect the drive to if you use master/slave jumpering on the drive. If you use cable select jumpering on the drive(s), the drive on the end connector is seen as master, the drive on the middle connector on a three connector cable is seen as slave.
Older mboards will not detect a single drive on an ide data cable at all unless it is jumpered or seen as master.
There are cable select only data cables (I've only seen or heard of them on some brand name systems), which are missing one connection between the middle and end drive connector on a 3 connector cable, and you must use cable select jumpering on the drives for those, but they were/are relatively rare, were/are used mostly if not exclusively for 40 wire cables, and I've never come across one on any system with 80 wire cables.
Some data cables have master, slave, and motherboard , or similar, printed near the connectors on the cable. That almost always does not indicate it can be used only as a cable select only cable.
