Which is better?

[ck42866]

Is it better to slave a CDR to a CDROM or the Hardrive? Thanks http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[Undertow]

I think I understand this correctly...you want to know which is better to have on slave, the CDROM drive or the hard drive? If that is what you are asking then the answer is to always have the CDROM on slave and the hard drive on Master.

Oh wait, now I understand. It really doesn't make a difference which one you slave it to.

[This message has been edited by Undertow (edited 11-18-2000).]

[nunyadam]

i would make the cd-r master on a second channel, and slave the cdrom to it.i'm sure someone else has a different idea. mine are all on different channels. ibm ata100 h/d on the a7v promise,cd r-w on primary ide,cd rom on secondary ide.

[-VictoryFleet-]

It shouldn't matter, but I'd play it safe and make it the slave to the CDROM (provided of course that the CDROM is on the secondary IDE/ATA channel.

[ck42866]

I had it slaved to my cdrom for a long time.

But a couple of days ago a friend who was installing his CDR told me his instructions stated to slave it to the hardrive.

Hence the question?

Right now, the CDR is slaved to the hardrive.

[petr0lb0mb]

You want to avoid slaving any CD devices to the hard drive. Always try to keep slower devices off of the primary IDE cable.

BTW - What brand of CDR did your friend buy? I would ask him to show the instructions.

[This message has been edited by petr0lb0mb (edited 11-18-2000).]

[Fingers]

Most knowledgeable computer guys will tell you not to put a CD device on the same channel as a HDD because it will slow down the HDD. Most technical papers that I've read do not support this theory however. If the CD-Rom is in use though, it will be using some of the bandwidth that the hard drive might be able to take advantage of.

I suggest putting the CD-R on a different channel than the device that you will be using to write to it most of the time. In other words, if you're mostly going to be burning CD-Rs directly from the CD-Rom, then it's best not to have the CD-Rom and CD-R on the same channel. Conversely, if you're going to be burning primarily from the HDD to the CD-R, then put the CD-R on the secondary channel.

My personal opinion is that pairing CD-Roms and HDD's on the same channel doesn't hurt the HDD performance, so I suggest the following setup;

Primary Master - HDD
Primary Slave - CD-Rom
Secondary Master - CD-R
Secondary Slave - empty

BTW, if you do end up with the CD-R and CD-Rom on the same channel, I've never heard anyone suggest slaving the CD-R to the CD-Rom. Alway make the CD-R the master and the CD-Rom slave.

[ck42866]

Then I'll leave it alone for now. Seems to be fine this way, though it seemed fine the other way too.

Thanks http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

Maybe this will eliminate some of the coasters that I have made in the past.

[NDC]

My CDROM and CDRW are connected on the same IDE channel. CDRW = Secondary Master and CDROM Secondary Slave. I burn CD's at 8x from CD to CD and never get coasters. Even when I multi-task. http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif