On Wednesday 02 June 2004 06:16, Basil Chupin wrote:
Not too long ago I had a small discussion in this forum about having 2 HDs on the same IDE controller and having DVE/CDROM and burner on the other IDE controller. My contention - and what I practice - is to have the HDs are the Masters on the separate controllers and the CDROM etc devices as Slaves on the IDE cables. For example, I have-
Seagate HD hda Pioneer DVD hdb
Seagate HD hdc Pioneer DVD burner hdd
The rationale behind this is that it is not possible to read and write simultaneously on the same IDE Controller and to get better speed performance between HD - HD or DVD - DVDRW put them in a configuration like I have.
A number of people didn't quite agree with me and were suggesting doing what you have done.
A few days ago a friend of mine - who also has a similar setup to yours, BTW - tried to install the latest version of Nero 6 on his Windows XP system.
Nero kept coming up with the warning message that having the DVD and the burner on the same IDE Controller will cause read and write problems. The warning went away when he reconfigured his system to be the same as mine.
Thanks for the info I'm going to investigate this one. -- ____________________________________________________________________ Frederic P. Soulier frederic@wallaby.uklinux.net OpenPGP key available on http://www.keyserver.net 1024D/BA6700ED 49A6 8E8E 4230 8D41 1ADE B649 3203 1DD2 BA67 00ED _____________________________________________________________________