best way to hook up CDR burner

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Deen

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Hey guys,

Just bought a new Burner. Just wanted to know the best
way to hook up that IDE cable. I have a single 40 gigger
on the 1st IDE socket and the CD ROM is slaved to it.
2nd IDE is empty.

How do guys suggest I hook up the Burner
to minimize burning mishaps and maximize
data throwput. Best performance configuration.

Manual suggests HD as main on the 1st IDE socket,
Burner on main 2nd socket while CD ROM is slaved
to it.

But I don't know if these guys from Lite On know
Sh*t about real audio applications.


Thanks in advance.
 
Yeah, try to keep your hard disks and your cd drives on separate IDE channels if you can. The IDE channel goes as fast as its slowest device, so if you've got a 133 hard drive and a 66 cdrw on the same channel, you'll be shooting yourself in the foot.

There won't be any read/burn performance gains by having them on the same channel, since it's not the IDE channel speed that's the bottleneck.

Lite on may not know about professional audio recording, but they sure as he11 know about cd-burning, and whether you're burning photos or audio it's all the same to the burner :-)

Do you have a particular reason for not following the manual's recommendation?
 
Hey Crimson117,

Well i don't have a particular reason,
but perhaps i was thinking maybe
the Burner would be free from any
data traffic if the CD Rom and HD
were on the same channel, and the Lite On
was solo on the second channel. I
don't know. But I suppose I'll
follow the manual for now.
I don't want to use the Burner as reader
and player since I want it to last longer than
the CD ROM.

So I guess it's HD solo on 1st IDE
Lite on master on 2nd IDE, CD ROM slave.

Thanks for the insight Crimson.
 
I wouldn't worry about the drive dying by using it as a consistent reading/burner drive.

Especially since I can bet you'll probably end upgrading to a DVD-/+/RW soon, since you can find some pretty good ones for $100 now.

And just a few weeks ago I didn't see any DVD burners retail for under $130

gotta love how fast PC parts drop in price.

and I agree with Crimson
CD/DVD-Rom and DVD/CD burners one one IDE chain,
Hard Drives on the other.
 
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