CD Burnes as a Master?

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Carlos

Hello;
I've been told that when you have a CD Burner and a CD ROM
installed in your PC, the Burner must be your Master and
the CD ROM your slave. Is this true? I thought it was the
opposite.
 
I don't think it matters; it doesn't on my system anyway. I have had them
connected several different ways over the years and they always worked fine.
The only time that I am aware of that this is important is when you are
updating the drive's firmware; some manufacturers require that the drive be
connected a very specific way to do this. You'll probably never be doing
this anyway so don't worry about that. As far as just normal use it makes no
difference how they are connected, at least not with any I have ever seen.
 
I asked the question when having a CD Burner and a CD ROM
installed in a PC, if the Burner had to be the MAster. I
have a problem of my CD ROM being my slave and doesn't
read any type of data. THE PC detects it but once I put in
any type of CD, doesn't read anything. Keeps asking me to
insert a CD in the drive.
Any ideas?
 
Carlos said:
I asked the question when having a CD Burner and a CD ROM
installed in a PC, if the Burner had to be the MAster. I
have a problem of my CD ROM being my slave and doesn't
read any type of data. THE PC detects it but once I put in
any type of CD, doesn't read anything. Keeps asking me to
insert a CD in the drive.
Any ideas?
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Alex answered you and gave you a very comprehensive answer at that, and you
reply by repeating the question...Not very polite. If you're having a
problem then I suggest the drive is faulty.
 
It sounds as though the drive itself may be faulty, or perhaps simply needs
cleaning. I don't see how having it connected as a slave would have any
effect on it working. Does your CD-ROM work when you connect it as a master?
Make sure you have set the jumpers correctly on both drives. If you have
Easy CD Creator installed that might also be the cause of some of the
problems. If you do have it be sure it is patched to the latest version.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
 
Alex answered you and gave you a very comprehensive answer at that, and you
reply by repeating the question...Not very polite. If you're having a
problem then I suggest the drive is faulty.
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Maybe he plans to continue repeating the question until he gets the answer he
wants.
 
Alex Marshall said:
It sounds as though the drive itself may be faulty, or perhaps simply needs
cleaning. I don't see how having it connected as a slave would have any
effect on it working. Does your CD-ROM work when you connect it as a master?
Make sure you have set the jumpers correctly on both drives. If you have
Easy CD Creator installed that might also be the cause of some of the
problems. If you do have it be sure it is patched to the latest version.
That's all I can think of at the moment.
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Try mixing a Pioneer dvd-rom and Pioneer dvd-r/w on the same ide!
With mine there was a firmware conflict, whichever was master would detect,
whichever was slave would not! The liteon's and sony's work with the P105
burner.
 
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