-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:42:27AM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> This is not a Debian question....but I am running Sid. >> >> I am about to install a Sony DVD writer in my machine and would >> appreciate some advice. >> >> I already have a DVD reader and a CD writer installed. >> >> The reader is on its own IDE channel... the writer is slaved to the hard >> drive IDE channel. >> > > Do you really want 1 x DVD reader, 1 x DVD writer _and_ 1 x CD writer?
Well I own it :) and it is installed already :) > > A suggestion: > > Assuming these are all IDE drives: > > Hard disk as master, DVD reader as slave > > DVD writer as master, CD writer as slave. > > Rationale: Writing is data intensive: if you put the hard disk as master > on one and DVD writer as master on the other, then when you need to copy > from HD to DVD, there's no device contention on the same cable. > > If you want to play back a DVD, then that's not so data intensive and > you'll be using the hard disk software to read it anyway, whether it's a > film or data. > > If you need to copy e.g. a CD .iso image from DVD to burn a CD, then > you've either got a DVD reader reading relatively slowly, buffered and > mediated via HD programs -> CD writer or you put up with clobbering data > on one cable and bus to copy pretty much directly from master -> slave. That makes sense. I'll probably go that way unless somebody else has a better idea. > > It's all pretty academic if you have a fast motherboard / fast > processor / large amounts of memory :) Dual core 2.6 mhz..one gig. Thanks for the advice !! Knew I'd get it here. Cheers -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkls6KgACgkQnQV1aTcQlJsjXwCgkQIUgk+4/FixxuZnToIQxLDA 1TYAnjIytAu3tnpXFp6tiaIehNOxSgdQ =yvEs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
