CD Burning on the fly

[jjsole]

I'm running Nero to burn some cd's, and it recommends not using "on the fly" because both my cd drives are on the same IDE ribbon, and recommends they be on different channels when burning "on the fly".

Well, I only have 2 IDE places to hook it up to, and the other is where my harddrive is connected, but I thought a cd drive shouldn't be connected to the harddrive IDE.

Don't most mobo's just have 2 IDE connections? I'm confused...how should these be hooked up?

[Gutter Ball]

Heh, I just had the same thing happen to me! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif Set your reader to 4X and write at 2X and you should be fine(no buffer under runs). Or you can try to set your reader at 8X and burn at 4X and you MIGHT be okay. I tried both and both worked no problem.

[jjsole]

If I put the cdrom, Fingers, on the HD cable as a slave, will that slow down the HD? If that's not a concern, which is better to put on the HD ide, the cdrom or the cd burner?

[Meat Puppet]

If your burning cd,s on the fly then I recommend you place your cd rom as the primary slave your hd as the primary master. And leave your r-rw on the secondary Ide by its lonesome, the effect of your hard drives performance should be unnoticeable

I have mine set up like this C drive cdrom primary Ide, Backup Hd+ Cd-rw on secondary Ide. and Ive never had a problem yet.

So keep the Cd-rw on a separate channel to allow for top speed on the fly.

[jjsole]

Thanks everyone for the tips!

[Fingers]

There are two IDE connectors on your motherboard; each connector will support two IDE devices. The 1st connector is called the primary channel and the 2nd connector is the secondary channel.
When two IDE devices are sharing a channel (ribbon cable), one needs to be designated as "master" and the other one "slave” This is done by changing the jumpers on the drive.

If you want to copy CD's "on the fly", you will achieve better results when the CD-Rom and CD-R are not on the same ribbon (channel). If you’re copying from CD-Rom to HDD, then writing to CD-R, you want the CD's on the same ribbon (channel).

An IDE device can transfer data at a higher rate if the destination drive is on a different IDE channel.