Hi Bill On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 03:26, Ward William E DLDN wrote: > I hadn't seen any replies to this yet, so I'll venture an observation > of my own: CDRW should be the master device on any IDE chain that > they are attached to, at least whenever possible. I've noticed > marked reliability concerns and performance concerns when the CDRW > wasn't the primary on it's chain, so I would switch the two drives > around.
My original decision was because the other device is a DVD-ROM drive, and I wanted it to have any performance gain as I was intending to use it to view DVD movies. Thankfully, after configuring both the DVD-ROM and the CD-RW as IDE-SCSI devices, any reliability and performance issues have disappeared. > Some media, however, are not able to burn well at higher speeds (I > still have media my drive will default to 8x for, although other media > I can burn on at the full 24x; the drive (and most of the better modern > CDRWs) can detect the maximum media speed relatively well). I have > yet to see 52x media, so you've got something there (I've only seen > media rated at 24x, though the best media I've found is actually only > rated for 8x In case we're talking about different things, I was referring only to 48 speed CD-R (write once) media. I haven't looked for CD-RW (write many) media recently, however last time I purchased some they were only rated at 8 speed. Thanks for your reply -- Michael Wardle Adacel Technologies -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
