Installing Internal CD Burner Help

[Skoob]

Ok, I got one but I'm having trouble putting it in. I'm confused and the crap aint working. I finally understood what the hell they were talking about when they said make one a "slave" by changing the "Jumper Pins". (By the way, this will be my forth drive on my PC, I have a CD/DVD, Zip, Floppy, and I'm adding the DD-RW. I had 1 extra IED cable free and 2 power cables free...P3 & P4) Well, I changed the one on the CD-RW to a slave. But, I'm confused at this point. My CD/DVD(master) has 5 little pins(the place where the jumper pins are and you change from master to slave and stuff like that), not 3 like the other drives. The jumper pin on the CD/DVD drive is on the middle pin. The 3rd from the left. Do I have to change this one to another spot?? If I do, what spot?? And which power cable should I attach to the CD-RW drive? P3 or P4? Or does it not matter?? Whatever I'm doing wrong somebody explain. Explain all of it so I don't have to struggle anymore to get it right.

 

[xXgambitXx]

i'm not really sure about what you have there but i can tell you that for configuring the slave/master settings on the drives......all IDE devices have a little picture on the top of the drive of jumper placement so just take a gander at that to find out how you have to set it up. as for the power cables, i don't know what P3 and P4 stand for. there is only one type of plug that comes off of the Power Supply that can fit into the drive. i would recommend this set-up. IDE 1: CD/DVD as the master and the Zip drive as the slave. IDE 2: just the Burner by itself as the master. the Floppy drive doesn't matter because it has it's own place on the mobo. let us know how it turns out

 

[Yomicron]

Okay, this is what I would do:

If you want to do "on the fly" copying:

Set the HDD as Master on the primary channel.
DVD as Slave on primary.

CD-RW as Master on the secondary.
Zip as Slave on secondary.

If you don't want to do on the fly: (what I would do)

HDD as Master on primary.
Zip as Slave on primary

CD-RW as Master on secondary.
DVD as Slave on secondary.


Now as to how to set the jumpers, I would go the manufactures' web sites and lookup the jumper settings.

The power connectors do not matter much, but if possible you should try to not put every thing on the same connector.

And as xXgambitXx said, the floppy does not come into play in this situation.

 

[Skoob]

Thanx for the help but the HDD & DVD drive aren't different drives. Its one whole one. Can you explain how you would hook it up that way??

 

[Yomicron]

Well, HDD = Hard Drive and DVD = CD/DVD

You never mentioned that you had a Hard Drive in the system, I just assumed.


and out of sheer curiosity, is this a Compaq? (P3 and P4 sound Compaqish)

 

[bulldawg]

If you don't want to do on the fly: (what I would do)

HDD as Master on primary.
Zip as Slave on primary

CD-RW as Master on secondary.
DVD as Slave on secondary.

I have it like this and do "on the fly copys"

Hdd/Hdd
CDRW/DVD

Never had a problem with copying "on the fly" like this. I know it's not supposed to work well like that, but ........🙂

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: bulldawg


I have it like this and do "on the fly copys"

Hdd/Hdd
CDRW/DVD

Never had a problem with copying "on the fly" like this. I know it's not supposed to work well like that, but ........🙂

I'm not saying that having the CDRW and DVD on the same channel will make it impossible it do "on the fly" copies. It all depends on if your burner has underrun protection and the speed of the system. bulldawg's 2.48GHz system with a 40x burner works fine, but Skoob didn't list any specs so I just generalized to give the safest solution.