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If I Tell U I May Have To Kill U

2003-02-19, 11:23 pm

Well, trying to put a pc together from scratch.

I have a standard CD burner and a separate DVD player.

I have 2 IDE slots. The first IDE goes to my hard drive, so that leaves one
IDE slot for the CD/DVD players.

I'm assuming that I have to set the CD as master, and the DVD as slave?
That is the way I have it right now, I've set the jumper on the DVD player
as a slave, and the CD jumper is set to master.

Is this correct?

Thanks for your help.


Billy

2003-02-20, 12:23 am

That is usually accepted as the best method. Some newer OS's are particular
and want the CDROM as a Master or Slave (D: (why even do?)). This also gives
slightly better transfers across the IDE channel, rather than to controller
and up the same chain (rush hour).

"If I Tell U I May Have To Kill U" <lrideout01@TakeOutTheTrash.attbi.com>
wrote in message news:zsZ4a.170310$iG3.20659@sccrnsc02...
> Well, trying to put a pc together from scratch.
>
> I have a standard CD burner and a separate DVD player.
>
> I have 2 IDE slots. The first IDE goes to my hard drive, so that leaves

one
> IDE slot for the CD/DVD players.
>
> I'm assuming that I have to set the CD as master, and the DVD as slave?
> That is the way I have it right now, I've set the jumper on the DVD player
> as a slave, and the CD jumper is set to master.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>
>



If I Tell U I May Have To Kill U

2003-02-20, 12:23 am

Thanks! I thought that was the case, maybe I thought about it too long and
talked myself into thinking it was wrong....

Thanks again!


"Billy" <noone@home.spamnet> wrote in message
news:3UZ4a.10971$_c6.1135719@newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
> That is usually accepted as the best method. Some newer OS's are

particular
> and want the CDROM as a Master or Slave (D: (why even do?)). This also

gives
> slightly better transfers across the IDE channel, rather than to

controller
> and up the same chain (rush hour).
>
> "If I Tell U I May Have To Kill U" <lrideout01@TakeOutTheTrash.attbi.com>
> wrote in message news:zsZ4a.170310$iG3.20659@sccrnsc02...
> > Well, trying to put a pc together from scratch.
> >
> > I have a standard CD burner and a separate DVD player.
> >
> > I have 2 IDE slots. The first IDE goes to my hard drive, so that leaves

> one
> > IDE slot for the CD/DVD players.
> >
> > I'm assuming that I have to set the CD as master, and the DVD as slave?
> > That is the way I have it right now, I've set the jumper on the DVD

player
> > as a slave, and the CD jumper is set to master.
> >
> > Is this correct?
> >
> > Thanks for your help.
> >
> >
> >

>
>



Barry Watzman

2003-02-20, 7:23 pm

It's actually probably better to put the DVD as a primary slave with the
hard drive. This will work better if doing a CD to CD copy (here using
the DVD drive a as CD drive).

But what you did will work. The burner should generally be the
secondary master.


If I Tell U I May Have To Kill U wrote:
> Well, trying to put a pc together from scratch.
>
> I have a standard CD burner and a separate DVD player.
>
> I have 2 IDE slots. The first IDE goes to my hard drive, so that leaves one
> IDE slot for the CD/DVD players.
>
> I'm assuming that I have to set the CD as master, and the DVD as slave?
> That is the way I have it right now, I've set the jumper on the DVD player
> as a slave, and the CD jumper is set to master.
>
> Is this correct?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
>


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