3rd drive

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I already have a Dvd drive and a CDrw drive, but just
purchased a DVD recorder, I want to have all three drives
so i require a way to connect the drive, I know i have to
get a controller to plug into a pci slot, but dont know
what kind i need, is it ide scsi or what?? Can anyone tell
me??
 
Justin said:
I already have a Dvd drive and a CDrw drive, but just
purchased a DVD recorder, I want to have all three drives
so i require a way to connect the drive, I know i have to
get a controller to plug into a pci slot, but dont know
what kind i need, is it ide scsi or what?? Can anyone tell
me??
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The DVD recorder's documentation (or probably even the box it came in)
will tell you. Odds are pretty good that it requires an IDE connection.

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Justin said:
I already have a Dvd drive and a CDrw drive, but just
purchased a DVD recorder, I want to have all three drives
so i require a way to connect the drive, I know i have to
get a controller to plug into a pci slot, but dont know
what kind i need, is it ide scsi or what?? Can anyone tell
me??
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Why on earth do you need all three?! It's pretty pointless - a DVD burner
can also burn to CDs. And, someone knowledgeable correct me if I'm wrong,
but a friend, who's the sales manager for a moderately sized I.T company
told me that more than one recordable device can cause problems.

If it was me, I'd ditch the CD-RW, set the DVD burner to master and have the
DVD-ROM as slave. The CD-RW drive is now superfluous.
 
I think he should ditch the DVD-ROM drive, since the DVD Recorder will do
the same job. However the CD burner is usually faster at burning CDs than
the DVD recorder.

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| I already have a Dvd drive and a CDrw drive, but just
| purchased a DVD recorder, I want to have all three drives
| so i require a way to connect the drive, I know i have to
| get a controller to plug into a pci slot, but dont know
| what kind i need, is it ide scsi or what?? Can anyone tell
| me??

You should be able to hook up 4 IDE devices. If you have
more than 4, you will need a controller card which will
allow you to hook up 4 more IDE devices. I have not
had any trouble with Promise controller cards.
 
IDE PCI controller card, you might consider getting a card
that supports RAID. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent
[Inexpensive] Disks) is a means to backup your data
automatically.


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| | | I already have a Dvd drive and a CDrw drive, but just
| | purchased a DVD recorder, I want to have all three
drives
| | so i require a way to connect the drive, I know i have
to
| | get a controller to plug into a pci slot, but dont know
| | what kind i need, is it ide scsi or what?? Can anyone
tell
| | me??
|
| You should be able to hook up 4 IDE devices. If you have
| more than 4, you will need a controller card which will
| allow you to hook up 4 more IDE devices. I have not
| had any trouble with Promise controller cards.
|
|
 
|

| |

| IDE PCI controller card, you might consider getting a card
| that supports RAID. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent
| [Inexpensive] Disks) is a means to backup your data
| automatically.


Ironic that you suggest this. I do have my system setup with
a Fasttrac TX4000, 4 HDD's, raid array 0+1. My burner and
dvd are the only things attached to my IDE ports. What a
performance jump along with the redundancy.
 
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