CD-R /DVD -R Question. Will they Play Together?

I have a Lite ON CDR drive set to master with a Lite On DVD ROM drive
set to slave on an IDE chain and the other IDE chain has my 2 Hard
drives (Master/Slave).

If I get a DVD+/- R drive where will I put it. Can it be the Slave
with the CDR drive as Master (Replacing the crappy DVD ROM) or does it
HAVE to be the master?

What gives?

Andrew

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:53:36 GMT, A L wrote:

I have a Lite ON CDR drive set to master with a Lite On DVD ROM drive
set to slave on an IDE chain and the other IDE chain has my 2 Hard
drives (Master/Slave).

If I get a DVD+/- R drive where will I put it. Can it be the Slave
with the CDR drive as Master (Replacing the crappy DVD ROM) or does it
HAVE to be the master?

I dont think it matters. I have it set to master with the DVD reader
as master and a Liteon as a master but Ive had it the other way around
too - DVD slaved to Liteon master CDR burner and my NEC dvd burner
worked fine.

"A L" wrote in message
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I have a Lite ON CDR drive set to master with a Lite On DVD ROM drive
set to slave on an IDE chain and the other IDE chain has my 2 Hard
drives (Master/Slave).

If I get a DVD+/- R drive where will I put it. Can it be the Slave
with the CDR drive as Master (Replacing the crappy DVD ROM) or does it
HAVE to be the master?

What gives?

Andrew


The *ONLY* time this matters if you are accessing both drives at the same
time.

For example, Sec Master = CD-RW drive, Sec Slave = DVD±RW drive. You CANNOT
burn 2 copies of a CD at the same time with this setup. However, Sec Master
= CD-RW, Pri Slave = DVD±RW -- now you can burn 2 copies of a CD at the
same time.

And it isn't just limited to 2 copies of the same disc, you can burn a DVD
on the DVD±RW and a CD on the CD-RW. Heck, you can burn some compilation
disc that is 2 CDs long at the same time, burning disc 1 on the CD-RW and
disc 2 on the DVD±RW (or vice versa!).

If you only have 1 hard drive, then I suggest this:

Pri Master = HD
Pri Slave = DVD±RW
Sec Master = CD-RW
Sec Slave = DVD-ROM

Here you can write 2 discs at the same time, and everything should be fine.
If you want, you could flip flop the DVD±RW & CD-RW, so that you could copy
on-the-fly from the DVD-ROM - CD-RW (if you leave it like I suggest, then
you can copy on-the-fly from the DVD±RW - CD-RW and also DVD-ROM - DVD±RW
(but not the two at the same time; 4 discs, 3 drives, something doesn't
jive)). There's no real advantage in either setup, since you can always
copy on the fly from something to something, I guess it depends on what
drive reads discs with protection the best (if you're into that sort of
copying). Otherwise, I'd do the above, and if the DVD±RW makes some weird
problems, just flip the burners.