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Mturner

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Jan 15, 2001
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i have a station which is pretty standard, i am putting a dvd reader in and a dvd writer in (both ide) it has 1 hdd, what whoudl each one be connected up to ie, dev reader - dev writer - mother board or hdd dvd writer motherboard etc?

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Marc Marc Turner
Network Manager

E-Mail: Mturner@turnerm3.fsnet.co.uk
 
Are you saying you only have 1 IDE controller? If so, this is a very old machine that will likely not be able to handle burning DVDs.

If, in fact you have 2 IDE controllers as most PCs in the last several years do, put the HD on IDE0 as the primary master; DVD writer and DVD reader on IDE1. Most people seem to set up the writer as master and reader as slave, but what's important for performance is not to put the HD and the writer on the same IDE controller. Newposter
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment."
 
it has 2 ide controllers primary and secondary Marc Turner
Network Manager

E-Mail: Mturner@turnerm3.fsnet.co.uk
 
It depends on what you plan to do. If you are going to copy DVD's (legally I hope) you would want the two DVD drives on seperate IDE cables. If you are going to play DVD's on the reader and copy files from the HD then they would be on the same cable. If you plan to do both get good burning software and expect to spend more time in the burn process.
 
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