Multiple IDE drives

02-24-2002, 06:11 AM

I am adding a cdrw to my pc. At the moment I have a cd-rom and one hdd. What is the best way to connect the devices to get the best from my pc. I am new to this so any help would be appreciated.

THANKS

**NUTNDUN** · 02-24-2002, 01:07 PM

I have my cdrom and cdrw on the same ide cable as I am sure most do. I have the cdrom set as master and my cdrw set as slave. This setup seems to work well for me, the only time I have made any coasters from trying to burn a cd was when I was trying to copy from a burnt cd. For some reason it doesn't like on the fly copying of the cd. The quick way to fix it is to let whatever burning program you use copy the cd you want to copy to cache then it burns the new cd from the cache on the hard drive. When I do it this way I have never had any problems.

**jrwap** · 02-24-2002, 02:03 PM

My setup:

ide1 - DVD Rom

ide2 - CD-R/RW

ide3 - Ata Raid (hard drives)

ide4 - hard drive

Each one is set to master. The only down side that I can see is all those rediculous ata cables. Other than that, I get pretty good performance.

-JRW

Cw_strife · 03-11-2002, 08:25 PM

lol unfortunatly I got one burner on External SCSI, 1 on IDE and another on internal SCSI. Dunno what to say, but all you have to do basically if you wanna hook it up is I am guessing your first CD-Rom is set to Master on the jumper, so basically look on the back of the CD-RW when you purchase it and look for the jumper panel and put the jumper on slave or Cable Select. Plug the IDE cable in, and the power, and you have a new drive. Simple as dat'. :smilewink

05-19-2002, 12:50 PM

cdrom & cdrw on the same cable wont work well for on the fly copying because the rate of speed of data transfer has to go throught the same cable and it cannot send & recieve at the same time so therefore it creates a buffer underrun - best way i do this is (for on the fly copying without caching or imaging) is to use a seperate pci eide controllers, an ata66 controller will do fine as most cdrom's and cdrw's use ata33, i heard some newer ones use ata66 but i still have yet to see this myself. i currently connect the cdrom & dvd to pci controller 1, 1 per channel and the 2 burners are connected to the pci controller 2, 1 burner per channel - i can burn 2 discs at once and not have a problem so as long the pci freq is stable & the controllers are using seperate dma channels on each device - next, id like to replace 1 of the burners with a dvd burner to author cd's and dvd's either from a seperate drive (8 drives installed) or the copy them on the fly - i dont use the os drive for the swap file, temp files or caching, the os drive is on a seperate channel as the rest of the configuration for all the drives - i prefer data to read/write at the same time when feasibly possible - i dont particualy like a swap file and use "ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1" under 386Enh, and one drive soley for swap, temp and caching on seperate channels on the ata100 side - ive seen a performance increase - well, thats just my input

02-24-2002, 06:11 AM	#1 (permalink)
kcrombie Guest Posts: n/a	Multiple IDE drives I am adding a cdrw to my pc. At the moment I have a cd-rom and one hdd. What is the best way to connect the devices to get the best from my pc. I am new to this so any help would be appreciated. THANKS

02-24-2002, 01:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
NUTNDUN Registered Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: PA Posts: 1,465	I have my cdrom and cdrw on the same ide cable as I am sure most do. I have the cdrom set as master and my cdrw set as slave. This setup seems to work well for me, the only time I have made any coasters from trying to burn a cd was when I was trying to copy from a burnt cd. For some reason it doesn't like on the fly copying of the cd. The quick way to fix it is to let whatever burning program you use copy the cd you want to copy to cache then it burns the new cd from the cache on the hard drive. When I do it this way I have never had any problems. __________________

03-11-2002, 08:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
Cw_strife Registered User Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: New Joisey Posts: 110	lol unfortunatly I got one burner on External SCSI, 1 on IDE and another on internal SCSI. Dunno what to say, but all you have to do basically if you wanna hook it up is I am guessing your first CD-Rom is set to Master on the jumper, so basically look on the back of the CD-RW when you purchase it and look for the jumper panel and put the jumper on slave or Cable Select. Plug the IDE cable in, and the power, and you have a new drive. Simple as dat'. :smilewink __________________ signatures are stupid so I am not going to have one.

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02-24-2002, 02:03 PM	#3 (permalink)
jrwap Admin Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Gorham Me Posts: 242	My setup: ide1 - DVD Rom ide2 - CD-R/RW ide3 - Ata Raid (hard drives) ide4 - hard drive Each one is set to master. The only down side that I can see is all those rediculous ata cables. Other than that, I get pretty good performance. -JRW

05-19-2002, 12:50 PM	#5 (permalink)
blur Guest Posts: n/a	cdrom & cdrw on the same cable wont work well for on the fly copying because the rate of speed of data transfer has to go throught the same cable and it cannot send & recieve at the same time so therefore it creates a buffer underrun - best way i do this is (for on the fly copying without caching or imaging) is to use a seperate pci eide controllers, an ata66 controller will do fine as most cdrom's and cdrw's use ata33, i heard some newer ones use ata66 but i still have yet to see this myself. i currently connect the cdrom & dvd to pci controller 1, 1 per channel and the 2 burners are connected to the pci controller 2, 1 burner per channel - i can burn 2 discs at once and not have a problem so as long the pci freq is stable & the controllers are using seperate dma channels on each device - next, id like to replace 1 of the burners with a dvd burner to author cd's and dvd's either from a seperate drive (8 drives installed) or the copy them on the fly - i dont use the os drive for the swap file, temp files or caching, the os drive is on a seperate channel as the rest of the configuration for all the drives - i prefer data to read/write at the same time when feasibly possible - i dont particualy like a swap file and use "ConservativeSwapFileUsage=1" under 386Enh, and one drive soley for swap, temp and caching on seperate channels on the ata100 side - ive seen a performance increase - well, thats just my input