Two Plextor Questions

[rowan]

Just set up my new 12/10/32A Plextor last night. Works like a charm. However, I have two questions:

1. I had to rearrange my IDE set up to hook up the Plextor in an optimal way. I made the existing CD-ROM a slave on the primary IDE port (on which the HD is the master) because I read that having the Plextor and the CD-ROM on the same IDE port will comprimise the performance of the writer (I read this in the Plextor manual). My question is, does this master/slave setup matter all that much? If the CD-ROM is the slave on the primary IDE, will it reduce performance of the HD or the CD-ROM?

2. I would like to burn some old casette tapes onto CD's. Do I need special software to render analog sound into digital sound? What is the best (and most economical) way to do this?

Your responses are appreciated.

r.

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[Harold7]

rowan,
I've got my Plextor 12/10/32A set up as a slave on IDE 2 with my DVD drive as master on IDE 2 and don't notice any problems or slowdowns burning CDs in that configuration. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[NDC]

I have my Plextor 8/4/32A connected on the secondary IDE channel as Master with my CDROM as Slave and I have no problems with it either. I hear people getting coasters when they have it setup that way, but never in my case! I've had all my systems this way and never caused a problem. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[[BR]Magikal]

I useed to have my cd-rom and cdrw on the same ide channel but I always had problems burning cds. Then one wonderfula and glorious day I read that if you put the cdrw on its own channel by itself then it might actually work properly. After I switched them around I have had very little trouble burning cds. I for one would recommend giving the cdrw its own dedicated ide channel. (It was easy for me as I have 2 ultra 33 channels and 2 ultra 66 cahnnels).

[HfdWolfPack]

I have 4 IDE channels, so cant help ya there, but to Answer #2. Did your Plextor come with Adaptec Ez CD Creator deluxe? If so, You can use Spin Doctor to record from Cassette > Wav File. Im sure there are more ways, but thats all I can think of right now.

[mgordon99]

I also have the 8x4x32 Plextor, it's set as the slave with my 52X CD ROM as master.

I've had this drive a few weeks now and not much success, 4 coasters so far. I am not sure if it's the configuration as the slave or other things. Usually the error I get is that the CD ROM cannot provide tha data fast enough to keep up with the writer. With a 52X CD drive and writing at 8X, I don't understand this.

Can anyone think of what I need to do? Should I shut down all programs running in the background?

System specs:

AMD 1GHz T-Bird
256 MB RAM
Win ME
Adaptec EZ CD 4
Nero Burning 5


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[Fingers]

I'm just back from installing a new PlexWriter 12/10/32A. Everything in the Plextor manual suggested that the PlexWriter should be the master, but if I moved the ATAPI Zip to slave on the secondary channel, then the Bios kept detecting the Zip as floppy drive B:. I'm going to try the PlexWriter as a slave to the Zip and see if there are any ill effects.


mgordon99, in most cases, the CD-R should not be on the same channel as the drive you're reading from. The Plextor 8/4/32 doesn't have BURN-Proof, which is supposed to completely eliminate coasters because the CD-R just stops writing if the buffer runs empty, then resumes writing again when the buffer is full.

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[liljohn]

i also have my plextor 12/10/32a at same ide channel with cdrom haven't had any problems burning. buffer stays at steady 90%+ all the time. im using 80pin ata66 ribbon for my burner it seems there are no differences between 40pin and 80pin.

[Fingers]

BURN-Proof works! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif In one session, I just burned 611MB from 3 different drives onto a back-up CD... two of the drives were on the other end of the network. Meanwhile, I was surfing the net and downloading newsgroup messages with Outlook Express.

From now on, when I need a drink coaster, I'll buy it at the store instead of making them in my CD-R. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif