newbie: attach CDRW as slave?
 

I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
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"Larry Gagnon" wrote in message
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I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
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Secondary Master is a good spot and usually what the drive maker recommends.

Secondary Master is a good spot and usually what the drive maker
recommends.

And use a 80pin cable on both IDE ports. Run a 'manual drive detect' in
bios if needed.

rms

"Larry Gagnon" wrote in message
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I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
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Secondary. It's really not a good idea to put hard drives and optical
drives on the same IDE channel IMHO. When I first added a CD-RW burner
about 5 years ago, I had problems because I put it on the primary IDE
channel with the Hard Drive.

Joe

put optical drives on same channell, but as far as i know you should'nt have
an optical and a hard drive on the same eide channel

Regards
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"Larry Gagnon" wrote in message
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I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
***************
remove "fake" from email address

Secondary. It's really not a good idea to put hard drives and optical
drives on the same IDE channel IMHO. When I first added a CD-RW burner
about 5 years ago, I had problems because I put it on the primary IDE
channel with the Hard Drive.

Joe

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"Larry Gagnon" wrote in message
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I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
***************
remove "fake" from email address

Secondary. It's really not a good idea to put hard drives and optical
drives on the same IDE channel IMHO. When I first added a CD-RW burner
about 5 years ago, I had problems because I put it on the primary IDE
channel with the Hard Drive.

Joe
Stephen Farrell" wrote in message
... put optical drives on same channell,
but as far as i know you should'nt have
an optical and a hard drive on the same eide channel

None of that matters anymore.
http://www.storagereview.com/guide20...onfTiming.html

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I am about to build up an Athlon XP2500 computer. I will have one hard
disk, one CDRW-DVD combo drive and one floppy disk drive. How do most
of you connect the CDRW, i.e. to the same EIDE controller as the hard
drive (as slave and HD as master), or do you use the second EIDE
controller seperately?

Larry Gagnon
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I have my CDRW attached as slave, and I have no problems with performance or
anything else for that matter.

/Benjamin

That's what I said.

Joe

"Stephen Farrell" wrote in message
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put optical drives on same channell, but as far as i know you should'nt
have
an optical and a hard drive on the same eide channel

Regards
"Joe727" wrote in message
snip Secondary. It's really not a good idea to put hard drives and
optical
drives on the same IDE channel IMHO. When I first added a CD-RW burner
about 5 years ago, I had problems because I put it on the primary IDE
channel with the Hard Drive.

Joe

I have no problem with hdd/cd as master/slave on primary ide AND hdd/cdrw on
secondary ide for several years. Yes, 8 out of ten PC I own has that
configurations.

Two PC of those ten has DVD as slaves on primary ide and I watch DVD movies
with no problems as long as you have DVD's DMA enabled in Win98 and Win2000.