CD-Rom & CD-RW on same ribbon cable?

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I saw in an earlier thread that someone mentioned that if
both CD-RW and CD-Rom are on the same Ribbon cable that XP
doesn't like it. Is there any truth to this? Does it only
affect certain drivers? I had issues with my drives when
XP was first installed yesterday, but now they work fine.
Just wondering if issues might pop up later down the road.

Ryan
 
This is absolutely false. Windows itself has no problem with both opticals
on the same IDE channel. However, some hardware will not get along
together. I have a Sony DRU-500a CD/DVD-+/--R/RW and a HP CD-R/RW on the
same IDE channel. Make sure that you use an ATAo cable (each IDE connector
is a different color); blue-motherboard, black to master and gray to slave.
Set the jumpers on the drives to cable select. If that does not work, set
the jumpers to master/slave. If that does not work then the drives are
incompatible.

Bobby
 
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I saw in an earlier thread that someone mentioned that if
both CD-RW and CD-Rom are on the same Ribbon cable that XP
doesn't like it. Is there any truth to this? Does it only
affect certain drivers? I had issues with my drives when
XP was first installed yesterday, but now they work fine.
Just wondering if issues might pop up later down the road.

Ryan
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The CD-ROM and CDR should be on the same cable for these
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reasons. These devices run slower than the new hotrod
harddrives. If you plug them in on the same cable as the
harrdrive, the CDs will slow the harddrives down to their
speed. IDE is designed that way.
 
Ryan said:
I saw in an earlier thread that someone mentioned that if
both CD-RW and CD-Rom are on the same Ribbon cable that XP
doesn't like it. Is there any truth to this? Does it only
affect certain drivers?
Click to expand...

XP itself will not mind. It *might* give trouble if you were trying to
copy a CD between the two devices - for that reason Nero for one will
not do so direct if they are on the same cable, and will insist on
copying to an intermediate file on hard disk. I reckon that the best
arrangement for two such devices and two hard drives is with the hard
drives as the two masters and the CD devices as the slaves
 
However, this method will slow down the new hogher speed hard drives.

Another method is to add in another IDE comtroller for the CD-rom/RW drives.
This would then allow to to set up the CD-Rom/RW onto separate channels.

Yves.

Ryan said:
I saw in an earlier thread that someone mentioned that if
both CD-RW and CD-Rom are on the same Ribbon cable that XP
doesn't like it. Is there any truth to this? Does it only
affect certain drivers?
Click to expand...

XP itself will not mind. It *might* give trouble if you were trying to
copy a CD between the two devices - for that reason Nero for one will
not do so direct if they are on the same cable, and will insist on
copying to an intermediate file on hard disk. I reckon that the best
arrangement for two such devices and two hard drives is with the hard
drives as the two masters and the CD devices as the slaves
 
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