General Discussion - Installing CD-RW

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Installing CD-RW

lillian40

2003-02-01, 1:00 pm

Hello everyone. I just brought a CD-RW drive hoping you all can "help me" install it. First I have a Compaq 7360 Computer with a K6 AMD 700 processor. I have 64 megs of ram in which I found out 8 of that is used for video memory. I am running windows 98SE. They type drive I brought is a Memorex 52x24x52. It uses Nero CD burning software. Just a little information to get you started.
Any information will be appreciated.
thanks

Boulware5

2003-02-01, 1:20 pm

Set jumpers to either Master, Slave or Cable Select. Don't put it on the primary IDE controller with your hard-drive, as that may slow down your hard-drive. More than likely you will make it a slave on the secondary IDE controller if your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM is the primary. Make sure pin 1 on the IDE cable matches pin 1 on the IDE controller (red stripe) and pin 1 should be next to the power cable on your CD-RW. And of course plug in an available power connector into the drive. Load up Nero, it should recognize it, and you are done.

lillian40

2003-02-01, 6:50 pm

thanks for the information...looking at the directions that's including with the drive..it mentioned making the cd-rw drive the master on the secondary cable and make the cd-rom the slave...does it really make a difference?...also what will be the better media to use for this drive? any information will be appreciated.

Deja-vue

2003-02-01, 6:52 pm

Nothing more to add, Boulevare5 pretty much explained it very well.
hmmm, i didn't know, they ever made a K6 700 ???
Very interesting...

lillian40

2003-02-01, 6:58 pm

sorry my bag....it is a 500 AMD-K-6 2 w/3dNow!

Boulware5

2003-02-01, 7:51 pm

quote:
Originally posted by lillian40
thanks for the information...looking at the directions that's including with the drive..it mentioned making the cd-rw drive the master on the secondary cable and make the cd-rom the slave...does it really make a difference?...also what will be the better media to use for this drive? any information will be appreciated.

Shouldn't make a difference.

Media....get CD's that support your burn speed. Unless you mean which brand is the best..

lillian40

2003-02-01, 7:58 pm

well that's where my confusion lies. If my cd-rw drive is 52x24x52 and I buy media that says,for instance, "writes up to 40x or writes up to 48x" is it ok to use? And then again, even though this is a CD-RW, Is it ok just to use the CD-R disk. I think this drive supports it, but I have know people to not be able to read disk, that have been burned using CD-R if its a CD-RW drive. Maybe someone can clarify this for me.

Boulware5

2003-02-01, 8:16 pm

You can use a CD-R or a CD-RW. Here is the difference: A CD-R is write once; once you write to it you can't erase it and write again. However, a CD-RW can be written, erased, written to again many times. Think of a CD-RW as a floppy disk - you can erase and write to it. CD-r's are cheaper - use those to burn mp3's or burn ISO images.

I dont believe you have to worry about write speed compatibility if you have a fast CD-R (at least i never did)

lillian40

2003-02-01, 8:22 pm

thanks, but another question concerning the CD-RW..since you can write many times. Say for instance, you know how you put information on a floppy disk, and you may use this same disk for all your important files, but you don't put files on that disk all at the same time. My question, can you "save/burn" a file onto the CD-RW media, and then at a later date or time, save/burn "another file" to the media? Or is this something that has to be "burned" all at the same time. I know the CD-R is just a "one pass" thing, but I was just curious about the CD-RW media.

ruscorp

2003-02-01, 8:26 pm

quote:
Originally posted by Deja-vue
Nothing more to add, Boulevare5 pretty much explained it very well.
hmmm, i didn't know, they ever made a K6 700 ???
Very interesting...

Boulware5

2003-02-01, 10:00 pm

quote:
Originally posted by lillian40
My question, can you "save/burn" a file onto the CD-RW media, and then at a later date or time, save/burn "another file" to the media?

Yup.

Not to confuse you, but you can also actually do this to a CD-R. It's called a multisession CD. Data is written in sessions which allows the CD to be systematically filled. Any multisession CD drive can access the data. This is done in the CD-R program (like nero) using the track-at-once writing mode.

But don't worry about that. In geneal, CD-R = write once.

lillian40

2003-02-02, 8:29 pm

hi to everyone...just want to thank you all for all the information you gave in helping me install my CD-RW. I have it installed, and I have even tested it. I tried to copy a music CD, just to see how it worked. I used just plain blank CD-RW media to do this. But when I tried to replay it back, all I got was gibberish. then when I tried just to copy a couple of files from my hard drive to the media, every thing seemed to work fine. When burning music, dO I need to use the Audio media or should regular blank media work. Also why if my drive is a 52x why does it tell me it can only write at 24x, does it have something to do with my CD-rom drive, it being a 24x drive? Any information will be appreciated.

Talica

2003-02-02, 8:40 pm

It looks like the Media you used is only certified at 24X, even though the Drive could handle 52X.
You will have to buy 52X certified Media, it usually is printed on the Box.

lillian40

2003-02-02, 8:44 pm

so the number on the media for example, 12x, 24x, 40x, 48x is the max speed the media is able to record?

msharma15

2003-02-02, 9:56 pm

quote:
so the number on the media for example, 12x, 24x, 40x, 48x is the max speed the media is able to record?

Yes.

zippu

2003-02-03, 12:01 pm

The first number means that it will write CD-Rs 52x, the seconds means it will write CD-RWs 24x and the last number means it will read at 52x speed. That is the reason why it would only write at 24x when you were using the CD-RW disk.

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