CD copying

[Tullphan]

I was trying to copy a cd via Nero 5.5 the other night when I got the message that (more or less) said both of my cd's was on the same ide channel & it could not guarantee a coaster would not be made.
Am I gonna hafta hook either the cd or the cd-r on the same cable as my hdd?

 

[ojai00]

Do you have the jumpers set correctly? Double check that and see if you have both drives set as master or slave. Hope this helps.

 

[unclebud]

the burner should be master and the cdrom should be slave right?
i just read image in cdrw, then copy from image...
good luck

 

[ojai00]

It would be better to have it the other way around. The CD-ROM as master and the CD-RW as slave. That way, you can do a direct copy from the CD-ROM to the CD-RW if you want. Or you can do just read the image from the CD-RW and copy it to the CD-RW.

 

[Broncho]

I've seen that before too. Basically it is saying that a single ide channel can't handle read and write executions at the same time. That might be true on non-ATA100 ide channels but I don't know that much about how they actually work. Does anyone else have any ideas about that?

 

[corkyg]

You will always be better off with your source and target on different IDE controllers.

The best solution is always to go for an external burner . . . SCSI, Firewire or USB 2. There are rarely any problems that way. It's the same old story that keeps getting repeated . . . you get what you pay for.

 

[Fenriss]

i get that warning whenever the "Burn on the fly" box is check. i've done a cd to cd copy with it checked and unchecked. not a coaster. but best to leave it unchecked, though.

 

[bacillus]

<< it could not guarantee a coaster would not be made. >>


assumes that your cdrw doesn't have some form of burnproof.
as said before, best to have reader & cdrw on different ide channels!