an easy question

[horstenpeter]

When I have one harddisk, one DVD drive and one CD writer, what would be the best way to connect them ?

HD First Master,
DVD First Slave,
CD Writer Secondary Master ?

 

[Abbaddon]

Originally posted by horstenpeter
When I have one harddisk, one DVD drive and one CD writer, what would be the best way to connect them ?

HD First Master,
DVD First Slave,
CD Writer Secondary Master ?

I'd do it this way:

HD Primary Master
Dvd Primary Slave
CD Writer Secondary Master

 

[ImaRootofALLEVIL]

/me blinks
isnt that exactly what he just said ?

my setup:
hd = primary
cd = secondary
(then raid cards for more hds )

 

[CIWS]

HD Primary Master

CD Writer Secondary Master
DVD Secondary Slave


If you can, you want to avoid connecting CD drives and HDs on the same controller.

 

[Bitchnmoan]

Originally posted by CIWS
HD Primary Master

CD Writer Secondary Master
DVD Secondary Slave


If you can, you want to avoid connecting CD drives and HDs on the same controller.

Just curious, does one channel of an IDE controller have enough bandwidth or throughput to handle a direct burn at full speed from the master optical to the slave optical? For sake of discussion, assume read and burn at 48x.

 

[_Korruption_]

Originally posted by CIWS
If you can, you want to avoid connecting CD drives and HDs on the same controller.

 

[TheMostWantedPolishTwin]

Originally posted by CIWS
HD Primary Master

CD Writer Secondary Master
DVD Secondary Slave


If you can, you want to avoid connecting CD drives and HDs on the same controller.

that's exactly how I have my drives connected...

 

[BlownFuse]

Originally posted by CIWS
HD Primary Master

CD Writer Secondary Master
DVD Secondary Slave


If you can, you want to avoid connecting CD drives and HDs on the same controller.

This is how I've always done it.

 

[BillLeeLee]

I've always had my hard drives and opticals on two separate channels.

Hard drive - Primary Master
Hard drive - Primary Slave
CD-RW - secondary master
DVD - secondary slave

 

[djnes]

To answer your question, yes, you can do direct burns while both optical drives are on the same channel.

 

[Iconz]

Originally posted by djnes
To answer your question, yes, you can do direct burns while both optical drives are on the same channel.

Yep, sure can. But of course IDE can't send data both ways simultaneously on the same channel like SCSI, so there is a possibility of buffer underrun on lower end systems or lower end drives when configured that way. The key is to have the HD and the CD-RW on separate channels IMO. The DVD drive could go either channel, but I'd have it on the opposite one as the CDRW if you do mostly direct disk copying. If you write mostly personal data CD's, it doesn't matter i suppose.

 

[djnes]

Originally posted by Iconz1
The DVD drive could go either channel, but I'd have it on the opposite one as the CDRW if you do mostly direct disk copying. If you write mostly personal data CD's, it doesn't matter i suppose.

Aww c'mon. Seriously. I wish people would stop spewing this BS. There is NO reason to put optical drives on separate channels. Nor is there a reason to put optical drives on the same channel as HDDs. I used to do direct copies on my 486 machine, with a 6x CD-ROM going to a Mitsumi 1X CD-R drive....and I never ever had a coaster. That was way back before the days of BurnProof and other such methods. Today's systems are thousands of times more powerful, and the burning software and hardware is light years ahead of what that was. There's no problem or drawback by putting both CD drives on one channel. Jeezus I wish old ass myths that are wrong would die and that people would stop giving them life.