On Saturday 09 April 2005 23:40, Arun Khan wrote:
On Apr 9, 2005 10:41 PM, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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What's wrong with these new cables and any other experiences like these?
If u connect a cdrom drive and a hdd on the same cable you are very likely to have a problem.
The thin wire IDE cables support ATA100/133. The regular IDE cables support upto ATA66.
The regular ide cable supports only ata33. The 80 wire cable is needed for 66/100/133 Mhz idebus speed.
rgds jtd
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
If u connect a cdrom drive and a hdd on the same cable you are very likely to have a problem.
The regular ide cable supports only ata33. The 80 wire cable is needed for 66/100/133 Mhz idebus speed.
This problem was observed in machines having independent cables too. When there is a cd rom and a writer in the system, both have to be in seperate ide channels for faster cd to cd writing. The writer has to be master so sec. master. This leaves primary slave for the cd rom.
Regards,
Rony.
On 4/14/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
This problem was observed in machines having independent cables too. When there is a cd rom and a writer in the system, both have to be in seperate ide channels for faster cd to cd writing. The writer has to be master so sec. master. This leaves primary slave for the cd rom.
Regards,
Rony.
To avoid making coasters, my personal preference is to copy the CD to an ISO image on the HDD and burn the disks from them. I keep the HDDs and the CD-RWs on separate IDE channels. This was helpful with the earlier CD-RWs that did not have buffer under run feature.
rgds, akk
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