cdr-rw

[jammer699]

got an hp 810i...should i install it on primary slave with hd or sec.slave with my cd rom?.....thanks

[deep_sky]

if I understand you correctly, you have an ide cd-rw. You shoulda gotten a scsi one if you have an ide one. However, I would slave it to cd-rom.....

[Vampiel]

Ultamately I do not beleive that it really matters, but just for organization slave it with the CD-ROM, I always try to keep the HD's with HD's and other devices seperate, always giving the HD first priorety. Who knows maybe it really does make some sort of performance diff.

[Donkey]

I have hear that it is best to have you CD on one IDE channel and the CD-RW on the other. This enables more efficient CD copying etc because both channels can be accessed at once.

[BC]

Yes it is best to have your cdrw seperate from the device you are wanting to copy from. Like a HD or CD drive. More efficent. Also I hear that if you have a UDMA/33 Or /66 Drive that if you have a slave device on the same channel that it will slow it down. This is how i have mine set up:

PM-HD (udma/33)
PS-CDROM (udma/33)
SM-DVD
SS-CDRW

So far I have not had any problems and seems to do just fine.

[a Bill]

Did you bother to read the instructions? Not only are they printed, but they are on the CD in text form and there are numerous videos on the CD covering just this subject. To add to this, the software is designed to find ALL of that info for you AND gives you an option to print it out.

That is without a doubt, THE easiest to install piece of hardware I have EVER bought. Even a complete newbie will have no trouble with it.

[sg]

In terms of copying from a CD to the CDR/W it probably is better to have it on a separate channel. I agree though - check the instructions - when in doubt RTFM. But if you end up with some copying problems using a shared channel then just copy CD->HD ("create image file on HD" using software) then HD->CDR/W.

sg