Do you have to have a Master?

[Impact55]

I've never tried this out, but if I want to just rip a burner out of a system and it was the master and the cd-rom was the slave, do I have to reconfigure the cd-rom to master, or can it operate properly as the slave? Thx. Also since I never really updated the firmware on the generic 4x burner, I don't really need to do any software things, just rip it out , right? Thx !

 

[odog]

a cdrom alone on a ide chain will not work set as the slave...

firmware shouldn't matter except for software compatiblity.

 

[Impact55]

So all I have to do is change the back of the cd-rom to master, ok I guess.

 

[office boy]

I have cd-roms that are slave and all alone on their chain. (mostly because I'm to lazy to change the jumpers)
Works fine.

 

[Impact55]

Might as well try it as slave then, I'll see how other people think.

 

[BigToque]

My moms computer has the cd-rom set as slave on the secondary channel with no master.

I would change it, but I'm too lazy.

 

[Pariah]

You don't need a master, but sometimes components run better as a master.

 

[Impact55]

Well's it going to be my sister's computer and he never uses the computer CD-ROM, all she does is chat and browse...