CD Drives - Difference IDE Channels?

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Having an argument with a buddy - He says you should put two CD drives
on same IDE cable to do copying. I say no.

Who's right? Why?

Thanks

Wee
 
Put the two CD drives on the same cable with DMA enabled on both drives. The reason many CD writer manufacturers recommend putting the writer on a cable by itself is they don't won't their support staff to be swamped with calls from people complaining about poor performance because they don't have DMA enabled.
 
Having an argument with a buddy - He says you should put two CD drives
on same IDE cable to do copying. I say no.

Who's right? Why?
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If a great deal of copying is to be done "on the fly", the drives are better
off on two separate IDE channels, with the burner is Master on one channel.
 
Having an argument with a buddy - He says you should put two CD drives
on same IDE cable to do copying. I say no.

Who's right? Why?
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Nero recommends putting the drives on seperate channels.

I suppsoe the only way to settle the arguement would be to try it both
ways and see what happens.

copy the same cd and be sure to have dma enabled on all drives
 
More correctly stated: you should never put an optical drive AND a harddrive
on the same IDE channel; it will slow the harddrive down to the ATA speed of
the optical drive. Therefore a user often ends up having to put the two
optical drives on the same IDE channel.
 
Having an argument with a buddy - He says you should put two CD drives
on same IDE cable to do copying. I say no.

Who's right? Why?

Thanks

Wee
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It depends on your needs.

Putting the two devices on different channels will make THOSE two devices
perform best in a disc-to-disc copy. However, optical drives are lower
performance than hard drives, so if you wanted to use the system for other
purposes your I/O to the hard drives would be interfering with the CDROM
copy process.

Then there's cable routing... I like neat systems so I always connect the
top two (or top and third/fourth/etc, depending on the cable connector
spacing) optical drives in a case to the same IDE cable. They start out
connected to same cable and the cabling is only changed if there's a
problem, which there usually isn't. Typically they work fine on the same
cable, do not need maximum performance possible with ATA33, only the
ability to run at full reading/writing speed, which they do. I'm not sure
if higher-speed, future DVD burners will be more of an issue or not but
they might go to ATA66 or higher anyway.
 
Having an argument with a buddy - He says you should put two CD drives
on same IDE cable to do copying. I say no.

Who's right?
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Neither of you.
Why?
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Because I don't see why you would possibly need 2 cd drives on the
same computer. Maybe you meant a cd drive and a cdrw?

Most computers have only 1 cdrom...but may also have a DVD
drive/burner...and/or a CDRW.

If you have a burner, you can usually burn faster by burning to a temp
file on the hard drive...and then burning to the disk from that
file...especially if you have an older cdrom.


Have a nice week...

Trent

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