CDRW Installation question

[bernse]

I am buying a TEAC 8x8x32IDE burner this weekend...getting a sweet deal.

I have never had more than 1 CD in my system before so I need to ask a question.

What IDE Channel should I have it on?

This is how my system is now:

Primary Ultra100 : Quantum HD

Secondary IDE: 50x ACER CD and LS120

Should I put it on the primary with the HD? Or, should I move the LS120 to the primary and put it on the secondary with the other CD?

Thanks!

Eric

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MSI K7T Pro 2A (Solid as a rock!)
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[Supafreak]

not really sure but u should prolly out it with the other CD_drive...not the master

 

[ForeverSilky]

Put it on the secondary ide as the master, with the cdrom as its slave.

 

[jhites]

Definately put on the secondary with your other CD drive. Does not really matter about master or slave. I personally prefer to have the CD-RW as the slave. Some CD drives will slow a hard drive performance down when set with the primary IDE as slave.

 

[bernse]

Thanks. So, it seems to be a consensus then? Same channel as the CD-ROM then?
How about which is master or slave then?

Thanks guys, you are all good with us newbies It is really appreciated.

 

[Supradude]

no no, don't put it on the same IDE as the other cd-rom... you can if you want, and it will work, but if your planning on using CD-to-CD copy, then out the CDRW and the cd-rom on different IDE channels... i can't explain the technical logistics well, but it lowers the risk of buffer underun...

from what i think, i believe it is because if you have them both on the same cabel, your computer has to read data from the cd-rom/ buffer/cache it/ and send it to the CDRW all within the same cable... so lots of data being moved here...

whereas if you use different IDE channels, the data goes from cd-rom to the motherboard gets processed and buffered (somewhere?), and then gets sent to the CDRW through another channel...

someone correct me and maybe post the correct phenomenon if possible, all i know is that having them on different IDE's deifintely reduces chances of buffer underrun

 

[ideaboy]

I have a TEAC 12x10x32 and a 50x CD. I have a Promise UDMA controller. I have the CD-RW on the IDE channel on the motherboard. I have the 50x CD ont the Promise controller. I can directly burn from a CD in the 50X to the CD-RW without writing to the hard drive first. GREAT!!!!