CDRW Installation Questions

[Paul Hubrich]

I know this one's been answered a hundred times before, but I couldn't get the forum search engine to work yesterday or today - so here goes.

If you have a typical computer with one HDD on primary master and a CDROM on secondary master, what is the best place to put a new CDRW?? (primary/secondary, master/slave??) The plan is to use the CDROM for games, software installs, etc., and the CDRW only for burning.

Also remind me 'cause I always forget - when you use a ribbon cable with three connectors, which connector goes to the MB, master, slave.

Thanks

[howste]

I recommend that you put the CDRW on a separate cable from whatever device you'll be recording from. If you're going to burn from both CDs and the hard drive, I would put the hard drive and CD reader on the primary as master and slave respectively, then put the CDRW by itself on the secondary. Anyone else have opinions?

[shadow]

Thats the recommended way for most CDRW's, thats how I have my Plextor.
The CDRW likes to be on it's own channel.

[Fingers]

I agree with howste.

If you're using an ATA/66/100 cable, the blue end goes on the mobo, black to master, gray to slave. Otherwise, the longer end of the cable usually goes to the mobo.

[[EFS]HarryPotter]

i have a tdk 12x and i have it slave on my primary it works absolutly perfect for me...not one mess up


btw i love the burnproof technology bye bye 2x philips!