[RESOLVED] Hard drive & cdrom on same ide cable

[AKPC911]

Is it okay to hook up a hp cdwriter to the hard drive ribbon , seeing how my secondary cable has a cd-rom and a omega zip drive , also the primary has an ata66 ribbon , does it support cdwriter

[dumb blonde]

MOVE THE ZIP DRIVE AS THE SLAVE ON THE HARD DRIVE MAKE THE BURNER MASTER AND THE CD AS SLAVE TO THE BURNER ATA 66 IS FINE CD BURNER MIGHT ONLY BE ATA 33

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[This message has been edited by dumb blonde (edited February 10, 2001).]

[techs]

I have had that same issue. I resolved it by going hard drive-burner and cdrom-zip on the first and second ide. it was the only way the burner would work without buffer underuns. If you do put the hard drive and zip on the primary, I would be interested in knowing if your hard drive speed decreases.

[Darren Wilson]

Iomega internal IDE Zip drives run at Mode 0 which is the slowest of all PIO modes!!!! Your HDD will certainly suffer in performance if you hook this up to the Primary Controller. Just add the CDRW as a Slave to the Primary.

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[unknownGHOST]

Funny monkeys Darren.. LOL

[Kenteth420]

The only problem I see with the burner hooked up to the hard drive is if your using an ATA 66 cable. My dvd drive and burner would only read cds intermittenly with an ATA66 cable, I changed the cable and they work fine. You should be fine, but I would recommend buying a controller card for $40 and saving yourself the hastle and the performance hit.

[Ugo]

Hey Darren, I thought you said that you wernt going to post any more. ??

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[Damned Angel]

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Ugo:
Hey Darren, I thought you said that you wernt going to post any more. ??

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SSSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.....were keeping that a secret from him


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[shawnMt]

Darren!

HMMM.... maybe I should consider comin back as well?

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[b_fleury]

We all love Darren !! If it wasn't for him, this place just wouldn't be the same. Nice to see you back!

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[AKPC911]

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL THOSE FOR THE USEFULL HELP, ONLY PROBLEM , DID THE HARDDRIVE AND WRITER , FRIED BOARD AND HARDDRIVE, FIGURING A BAD WRITER , COULDN'T EVEN OPEN TRAY TO PUT CD IN , HOOKED IT UP TO ANOTHER COMPUTER - NO RIBBON , JUST POWER , NO SPIN UP OR CAN'T OPEN TRAY. TOOK BACK TO STAPLES AND GOT MONEY BACK , SAYS GOT TO DEAL WITH HP- ON MOTHER BOARD AND HARD DRIVE. YA -RIGHT !!!!!!!!!!


DARREN WILSON , HAVE YA THOUGHT ABOUT A WEB SIGHT FOR YOUR FOLLOWERS , I'M GLAD THEY WERE OF HELP , AT LEAST I FEEL I CAN TRUST WHAT YA SAY , OR YA WOULDN'T HAVE THESE PEOPLE WAISTING MY TIME IN READING THERE BULL_ _ _ _ !!!!!!!!

[MacGyver]

I have this setup on my home PC and it works great:

Primary master: 10 gig Quantum HD
Primary slave: HP 9100i CD Writer
Secondary Master: 24X Panasonic CDROM
Secondary Slave: Zip100 Internal

I think the key to getting this thing to work is to keep all the UDMA capable devices on one channel, and everything else on the other. This is because each channel falls back to the lowest compatible speed. So Darren is right, if you put it on the same channel as the ZIP, the speed of the CDRW would suffer, and you'd probably end up with a coaster factory.

In my setup, both the HD and CD-RW are DMA capable, while the 24X and ZIP are not. It works perfectly!

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[CREEPINGDEATH]

It's usually better just to get a cheap controller card from what i've experienced.

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[willieray]

OH MY GOD!!!!!!

shawn is still alive!!!!

hadn't seen a post from ya since 62'

welcome back shawn!

now on topic....

primary line:

master= maxtor uata100hdd
slave= kenwood true x 72 cd rom

secondary line:

master= sony 8x4x32 spressa
slave= dangling little cable.

in every other config, the cdrom and writer were giving me probs..


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[crtlaltdel]

Think it's a hit & miss kinda deal, seems as though everyone has theirs set different, my set-up is like this
primary master 10gb Maxtor
primary slave 30gb Maxtor
secondary master HP9350cdrw
secondary slave 52x creative
works for me
AKPC911, I think you are going test different setups and see what works best


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