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Adding DVD burner
Last build was an Athalon XP Barton 2500 on a Soltek board, so I'm waay behind the times. It has an open drive bay, so decided to add a DVD burner. Getting closer to being modern. When I put it together, put in 2 CD-RW drives, one on each header as master or cable select, can't remember until I open the box. Would I be better off removing one of the CD drives, or putting one as a slave to the other, and giving the DVD the master slot on the other channel? Plenty of space, just trying to make it as easy as possible to avoid conflicts. Thanks Mark |
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On Jan 22, 2:11 pm, pheasant wrote:
Last build was an Athalon XP Barton 2500 on a Soltek board, so I'm waay behind the times. It has an open drive bay, so decided to add a DVD burner. Getting closer to being modern. When I put it together, put in 2 CD-RW drives, one on each header as master or cable select, can't remember until I open the box. Would I be better off removing one of the CD drives, or putting one as a slave to the other, and giving the DVD the master slot on the other channel? Plenty of space, just trying to make it as easy as possible to avoid conflicts. Thanks Mark You can burn cd's with DVD burner. I have two, one master & one slave on one ide ribbon. Good luck, Mark |
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"pheasant" wrote in message ... Last build was an Athalon XP Barton 2500 on a Soltek board, so I'm waay behind the times. It has an open drive bay, so decided to add a DVD burner. Getting closer to being modern. When I put it together, put in 2 CD-RW drives, one on each header as master or cable select, can't remember until I open the box. Would I be better off removing one of the CD drives, or putting one as a slave to the other, and giving the DVD the master slot on the other channel? Plenty of space, just trying to make it as easy as possible to avoid conflicts. Thanks Mark As neither of your current drives has the ability to read DVDs, my opinion is remove BOTH drives, find a bay cover to fill in the hole. Any current DVD burner will likely record CDs faster than your current drives anyway. So you won't be losing any capability. The only reason to keep one of the current drives is if you do a LOT of CD copying, bit for bit. Then you could use one of the old drives as a source drive. But it's still easy to copy a CD with just one drive, so only keep one of the old drives if you do a lot of copying of CD. Another option would be to buy a cheap DVD drive for the other bay, instead of a bay cover. -Dave |
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pheasant wrote in
: Last build was an Athalon XP Barton 2500 on a Soltek board, so I'm waay behind the times. It has an open drive bay, so decided to add a DVD burner. Getting closer to being modern. When I put it together, put in 2 CD-RW drives, one on each header as master or cable select, can't remember until I open the box. Would I be better off removing one of the CD drives, or putting one as a slave to the other, and giving the DVD the master slot on the other channel? Plenty of space, just trying to make it as easy as possible to avoid conflicts. Thanks Mark If you want to use all the drives put the DVD burner as master and a CD burner as slave on one port. Put the other CD burner as slave and HD as master on the other port. DeepBurner is free software compatiable with all drives and versions of WIN: http://www.deepburner.com/ I like it and the price is right. -- pcbldrNinetyEight |
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