Cheryl Homiak([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > 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.
>From what I have read from the copious writings of the author of CDrecord: <quote> General hints: NOTE: IDE/ATAPI don't have disconnect! You cannot expect the needed performance for CD Writing if you connect source and destination drive to the same IDE cable. </quote> > > 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? That is how I have mine set up and have not had any problems. ;_) > 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. Sorry, I don't know anything about the 'lite-on'. I found that a PLEXTOR and an Acer, both worked fins and were not that expensive. I'm using them, mainly, for backups and performance was more important then price. :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) -- There were computers in Biblical times. Eve had an Apple. _______________________________________________________
