IDE Question

[ViperSSD]

What is the best way to setup your IDE channels for the best disk to disk cd burns. Should I slave one to my hard drive and have the other one the master on a seperate channel, or should I put one cd as the master and the other the slave on the same channel. Thanks in advance for your help.

 

[TuOni]

yeah i was actually getting a problem with nero the other day just testing out the darn proggie to see what nero was all about. Not to user friendly for the average computer joe. Anyway I had both my drives cendyne 8x8x32 and a raite 8x dvd (the ratie could only be plugged into ide1 on my abitkt7) I plugged my 44pin(ata66-100) cable in to the hard drive in channel ide0 and plugged my raite into ide1 along with my cdrw into slave ide1...well the buffer was getting used up by both the drives, my burns were all unsuccessful but anyway I plugged one in each ide and everthing is great now so maybe that might help but if now I used 10 kb on this type... later guy..happy holidays

 

[Wuming]

i was told before that the source rom drive should be kept on a separate channel as the cd writer. so lets say you have 2 hdd, a cdrom and a writer, you can have a hdd as primary master, the cdrom as primary slave, the other hdd as secondary master, and the writer as secondary slave. this is supposed to solve buffer problems while writing cds.

 

[ViperSSD]

I will try that. Thanks for the input guys.

 

[KB]

I have had no problem running CD copies with the CDR and CDplayer on the same IDE channel; however it is recommended that you have them on seperate channels. I have a Pioneer 6X DVD and CL 4x2x2 with Nero 5.0.3.5.

 

[Usul]

Doesn't really matters.
But 2 masters in 2 channels should be better.

My 2 cents

 

[viper007]

HDD as MASTER on IDE1
CD as SLAVE on IDE2
CDRW as MASTER on IDE2

Cheers.

 

[1ce]

The problem with IDE is that one conversation pre motherboard connector. The worst thing you can do in your case would be to put the Burner and the HDD that you use the most on the same wire. This could led to many wreaked CD's. YOu want to put them on different wires. Also if you were planing to copy CD's form one CD-rom to another then you should but them on differnet wires as well. I had a Pioneer DVD and a Yamaha 4x2x6 burner on the same wire and it would crash all the time. I would have to copy the CD first to HDD then CD. Also if you put the CD-ROM drive(non-writer) on the same wire then you will see a slow down when you copy something form that CD-rom drive to HDD. But remember you still can install and run programs of the CD-writer but, it is extra wear and tare on the Drive.


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PII 350 / Abit BH-6 / ATI All-In-Wonder Pro / 160 Ram
Pioneer DVD / Yamaha 4x2x6 IDE / Yamaha 4x4x16 External SCSI
SIIG Ultra 100 Controller
Maxtor 60GIG / Fijtsu 13GIG
1ce