installing a CD-R

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Fab4ever

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Forgive this doltish inquiry:

I have purchased my first CD-R and will install it tonight. In reading the instructions, it gives me the option of installing it as a master or slave. How do I know which one I want?

I have a CD-ROM drive already installed, and I would like to keep it. So does this mean the CD-R needs to be the slave?

Thanks, and sorry again for my computer-illiteracy.

Fab4ever
 
i am by no means an expert...but i've done the same installation and i have my cd-r as the slave.
 
If you installing the CD-R on the same ribbon as your CD-ROM:

Look on the back of your CD-ROM. There will be a little jumper, black or white plastic thing. 3 Positions it can be in (assuming a fairly new CD-ROM, not 8 years old or something) Middle is Slave, To the left, looking at the front of the drive, is master. To the right, is Cable Select.

Looking at the back of the cd-rom

-audio- |CS|SL|MA| --------IDE Ribbon----------- |POWER|

If your CD-ROM is set to slave, set the jumper on the CD-RW to Master or vice versa.

I prefer to have the CD-RW as master, and the CD-ROM as slave.

You should go into your bios and under standard cmos setup, put the secondary Master and Slave settings to AUTO.


If it's going on the same ribbon as your hard drive, it will have to be set to slave.
 
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I have my CDR and CDROM on the same IDE channel as well and have the CDR as master... I have a Plextor CDR drive and I know that plextor and others reccomend running the CDR as a master whenever possible
 
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