On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Bobby Geortgilakis wrote:
Hi All & help,
I have three devices off my ide channels so far & am about to add a fourth, viz HP-CD-Writer Plus 91001 :-)
But I am wondering which channel to put it on?
My six gig Fugitsu is udma 33 as is my cd-rom (44x).
My two point 5 gig Fugitsu is a mode four thing.
A geek friend down here said that if I wanna to direct cd-to-cd burning, then both the cd's would need to be on the same channel. Is this so? Because if I do this, I loose the "speed" of the faster Fugitsu....
So, is it ok too keep both the six gig Fugitsu & my cd-rom (44x) on the same channel & would I still be able to do direct cd-to-cd burning?
Please help, as I have bits all over the place & I wanna idea of the best way to put em all back together again-with apologies to that chap who fell of the wall..... :-)
I think it will work OK BUT- I have had bad luck doing "on the fly" copied of cd's. As I understand it any error on the read of the cd will be written to the burn cd. A better approach is to make an image on your hard drive and burn from that. Any read errors can then be re-read by the read cd to insure a good image. This does take longer and requires upwards of 700 meg free space on a drive. I have found the trade-off to be worth it. Good Luck burning! -- Bob F EMail FBob@wt.net A Truly Wise Man Never Plays Leapfrog With A Unicorn... -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/