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question on ide configuration
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| mbradri 2003-12-16, 12:28 pm |
| My issue is this, I have my cd/dvd burner on my both drives they both shade ide1 with a hard drive and I am noticing my burn times are really slow it takes me 10+ min to burn a data cd (not dvd) @ 40x and it is taking me close to 55min to burn a dvd @ 4x, I have multiple friends that tell me it should be taking no longer then 5min @ 40x and my dvd burner should be closer to 30min per cd usually around 4 gigs of data. I am wondering if my problem is because I am sharing ide channels with hd's and cdroms I am going to be changing configurations soon, switching all hd's over to the raid ide's and using ide1/ide2 for my burners.. I was thinking it might be buffer under run protection that is kicking on and having to slow my burns down. but I am not sure. | |
| Boulware5 2003-12-16, 1:15 pm |
| Having a burner and a hard drive on the same IDE channel is not a good idea. Usually the read/write speed of the hard drive is limited to the data transfer speed of the CD drive - or in your case the CD burner. | |
| azimuth40 2003-12-16, 1:51 pm |
| Even if they were the same speed IDE devices hold on to the cable for the full length of the I/O operation. That is IDE's unfortunate disadvantage compared to SCSI. Transfer even between two IDE devices of the same type on the same cable is still slower than splitting the devices across two cables since you can never perform concurrent I/O.
Your burner should always be on the opposite cable from your hard disk. If it shares the cable with another CD then it should be the master. If it shares the cable with a DVD burner then the DVD burner should be the master. | |
| mbradri 2003-12-22, 9:32 pm |
| Thanks to you both for taking the time to answer. |
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