Is this normal?

[nishant]

Hi

I have my Cdwriter and Cdrom drives connected together (Master / Slave). The digital audio cable and the other audio cable is connected to the cdrom drive. The thing is that I've noticed that audio cds only play in the cdrom drive, but is recognised in both. The cd plays in the cdwriter but there is no sound. I then connected the 2 audio cables to the cd writer, then it plays audio cds but then the cd rom drive doesn't. Is this normal or do I have a problem? Thanx

-Nishant

[cloutty]

You will only get sound out of a drive you have the connector plugged in to. Your sound card may have a second channel, if so you can plug another cable into that.

[cloutty]

Sorry that was not very clear. The IDE cable does not carry the sound it is the other red/white cable connected to the CDROM, hence you can only hear sound on the the CDROM with the small red/white cable connected.

[userserver]

You can also use a splitter for the analog sound, but things get pretty weird when you put an audio cd in each drive. :)

[DocEvi1]

you could try a digital lead if you have a suitable soundcard.
You won't be able to copy on the fly using the CD and CDR on the same IDE channel. One consideration is that devices will work to the slowest speed when plugged onto the same IDE channel - i.e. a ATA133 drive will slow down to ATA33 if installed on the same IDE channel as the CD / CDR.

Stefan

[nishant]

Thank you all for your replies, I'm gonna think about the splitter. Thanx for the advice

Regards
-Nishant