Greetings, The cd-r can be on any drive, master or slave. Mine is set up as following: cdrom: /dev/hdc (secondary master) cdr: /dev/hdd ( secondary slave) and I've had no problems. I'm not sure about whether lite-on will work or not. My drive was not listed on the cd-r but it works, so there could be a good chance that it will work. -greg murphy
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 22:20, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > I have a cdrom and plan to keep it but also add a cd burner. I had thought > that i remembered being told that the cd burner had to be the master on an > ide, but now can't find any documentation for that. Both the cdrom and cdrw > are ide/atapi so I am using scsi emulation and have also compiled with > scsi, scsi cdrom and generic scsi. the person installing wants to install > the cdrom on one drive and the cdrw on the other as he feels this may make > transfers when copying a bit faster. I also have two hard disks, though one > of them used to be DOS and, now that i have made a dos partition on my main > drive, is only being used to store some backups at present. This means that > I would probably put the cdrom on hdb and the cdrw on hdc. Is there any > reason not to do this? > Also, the person installing this can get the best price for me on a lite-on > cdrw, though he could also get a creative. when I looked at the cdrw-howto, > lite-on wasn't listed, but I realize this doesn't mean it isn't usable. > Furthe searching brought up the lite-on as useable with the cdrom.c driver. > Is this a generic driver that is loaded by the kernel and will it be loaded > with the options i've chosen? > Has anybody had experience with the lite-on; don't have a model number as > yet so can't be more specific. > TIA.
