Will Dumes wrote:
"DJ" wrote:


I have a dvd writer and a dvd rom. Does it matter which is
master and which is slave?

It makes no difference at all.

This has not been my experience at all. The Pioneer A04 seems
to refuse to work as a slave device in my nVidia nForce system.
It is very happy as a master on its own bus. When I add
a slave DVD-ROM on the same bus, the Pioneer doesn't want to
burn stuff.

"Gints Klimanis" wrote in message
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Will Dumes wrote:
"DJ" wrote:


I have a dvd writer and a dvd rom. Does it matter which is
master and which is slave?

It makes no difference at all.

This has not been my experience at all. The Pioneer A04 seems
to refuse to work as a slave device in my nVidia nForce system.
It is very happy as a master on its own bus. When I add
a slave DVD-ROM on the same bus, the Pioneer doesn't want to
burn stuff.


My A04 works fine slaved on my Gigabyte SINXP1394 mobo

"Joe" wrote in message
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It is not a good idea to have both burner and regular CD/DVD connect
to same IDE port epecially if you want to burn on the fly. It's a good
idea to make both of them SLAVE of hard drives (2 different IDE ports)

True, however, most cases and cabling nowadays make that difficult to do, at
least if you have a case designed to keep your hard drives cool. The HDD's
are typically placed low in the case, behind cooling intake fans, whereas
the 5.25 drives are placed high in the case, for ease of access. It's hard
to find cables that reach both easily.

Aren't most burners only using PIO mode 4 to send/receive data to the
PC?

If so then that does not really stretch the capabilities of the data
transmission capacity of the IDE cable.

Would using this inefficient protocol in fact be stretched more?

"Will Dumes" wrote in message
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(Joe) wrote:

This has not been my experience at all. The Pioneer A04 seems
to refuse to work as a slave device in my nVidia nForce system.
It is very happy as a master on its own bus. When I add
a slave DVD-ROM on the same bus, the Pioneer doesn't want to
burn stuff.

It is not a good idea to have both burner and regular
CD/DVD connect
to same IDE port epecially if you want to burn on the fly. It's
a good idea to make both of them SLAVE of hard drives (2
different IDE ports)


Aren't most burners only using PIO mode 4 to send/receive data to the
PC?

If so then that does not really stretch the capabilities of the data
transmission capacity of the IDE cable.

All three of mine seem to be running in dma mode 2.

Now wouldn't that be nice, a true 48X DVD-ROM, 400X CD BURNER, and
48X DVD BURNER. I KNOW BURST, NOT REAL TRANSFER.