How is your CDROM, Burner and HD configured?

[gerryf]

I have been having some problems with my CDROM locking up my system when it is accessing info. I have my 30 Gig HD as the primary master, a 50X Asus CDROM drive as the secondary master and an Acer 6206 burner as the secondary slave. I think this config might be a problem and was wondering how other people had these three devices configured. I am considering changing them around in hopes it will solve the problem. Thanks.

 

[Fast Eddie]

IDE 1
Western Digital 18 gb (master)
Panasonic Blue Streak 16X DVD (slave)

IDE 2
Lite-on 12x10x32 cd-writer with burnproof (master)

I used to have an iomega zip drive as a slave on the secondary IDE but it caused problems so I moved it to a promise ultra ATA controller where it won't cause problems...

* make sure your first hard drive is configured as a single drive and NOT a master... You don't need to configure it as a master if the second device is a CD-Rom in fact I have found that if you do so you could have problems

 

[gerryf]

Eddie...what do you mean by a "single drive" .. I thought the only options were Cable Select, Master or Slave??

 

[Phatty106]

I'm suprised you haven't had problems burning. Try the burner as the secondary master and the CD-Rom as the slave.

 

[TunaBoo]

Onboard IDE 1: 50X CD-ROM
Onboard IDE 2: 16X DVD
PROMISE PCI CARD IDE 3: 40 GIG IBM 60GXP
PROMISE PCI CARD IDE 4: 60 GIG MAXTOR 5400 STORAGE
SIIG (Highpoint) PCI IDE CONTROLLER IDE 5: Plextor 16X burner


I like to keep my IDE chans seperate

 

[Desmoquattro]

(This is my secondary system by the way. My primary has a promise controller so listing that setup might not help you.)
Primary master: HD
Primary slave: CD-ROM
Secondary master: Burner
Secondary slave: Zip-drive
(This is my secondary system by the way. My primary has a promise controller so listing that setup might not help you.)

I wish I can put both cd drives on one chain...but Nero 5.0 always pops up with this warning that doing this might cause problems...(no burnproof on burner).

 

[Duvie]

I put the cd-rom as slave on masters to make sure I do not effect the transfer rate while burning cd's on the fly...

However I have seen it work in many orders, though I think the above is optimal for the most uses...

I doubt this is your issue of freezing up the system...I have seen it happen and usually you get a BSOD which you can get out of and back to the desktop...a lot like a BSOD memory error.

List the rest of your system specs to look for the real cause?

I have a cd-rom older (acer at work) that freezes when reading certain color cd-rs and cd's that may have some imperfections...maybe quality of cd-rom bites!!!

edit:

My system

maxtor ata100 IDE1: 15gig maxtor
maxtor ata100 IDE2: 45gig maxtor

primary master: Kenwood 42x cd-rom
primary slave: NEC zip
seconadry master: Aopen 1232a CDRW
secondary slave: BTC 8x32x DVD-rom

also: accessing data shouldn't be an issue transfering the data is where this type of configuration could avoid issues.

 

[Fast Eddie]

Western digital drives have a single drive, master, slave, and cable select settings.. For other drives just use master

 

[MikeO]

My config

IDE1,
IBM Deskstar HD (Master)
Fujitsu HD (Slave)

IDE2,
Creative 12x DVD (Master)
Plextor 16x Burner (Slave)

 

[dingdongdingdong]

my first ide chanel poineer dvd master plextor 16x10x40a slave
second ide chanel plextor 16x10x40a master Teac 16x10x40 slave
and all my hardrive on third ide and four ide chanel and and 8 other hardrive on my maxtor utra 100ata (all of them are mator 81gig) they give me no problem at all totall hardrive is 12x81gig maxtor

 

[gerryf]

SUCCESS!!! I reconfigured my drives (put CD as primary slave and the Burner as secondary master) and everything seems to be working OK. Thanks for the help guys.