Adding a new DVD-R...master or slave?

[gerald_weigel]

I was thinking of adding a DVD writer to my setup. I currently have a 120GB HDD, DVD, & CD-RW. I currently have the HDD as the primary master, the CD-RW as the secondary master, and the DVD as the secondary slave. Should I just add the DVD writer as the primary slave, or is this config totally fouled up?

[Uncle Bob]

Adding the DVD writer as primary slave should work. I found
that my DVD ROM & the DVD RW (both pioneer) worked better with 80 wire cables.

[John Prophet]

Well..you do have some duplication going on there.

Because the DVD-rw covers the functions of both the DVD and the CDRW. SO personally I would get rid of one of those...probably the DVD.

I dont think there is such thing as DVD to DVD recording but I could very well be wrong....but that would be the only reason to keep TWO DVD players.

If you are going to keep everything I would try to arrange it like this.

Hard drive as master and CDRW as slave on channel IDE channel one.

DVD-RW as master and DVD as slave on channel two.


Unless of course there IS such thing as DVD to DVD recording in which case you definitely DONT want both DVDs on the same cable. In that case go:

Hard drive as master and DVD as slave on IDE 1.

DVD-RW as master and CDRW as slave on IDE 2.

Either way the DVD-RW probably needs the most headroom so it should be master in any case.

Personally I would ditch the DVD or the CDRW so that the DVD-RW could be on its own cable alone.

Hard drive and CDRW on cable 1.

DVD-RW alone on cable 2.

JP

[NDC]

Well, I have a Yamaha F1 44/24/44 CDRW drive and a TDK 420N DVD+R/+RW drive and I have them both hooked up. The reason for this is two reasons:

1. The DVD burner only has 12X writing for CDR vs. 44X on the Yamaha.

2. I don't want to put unecessary wear on the DVD burner when I have a dedicated CDR burner..



It's all a matter of preference I guess.. This was just my preference..

I also put a DVD reader and DVD Burner on the same ribbon since I would never do copies on the fly. Why? Because most DVD movies are DVD-9, and the DVDR medias are only DVD-5 so you couldn't do a copy right away anyways. You would first have to rip the DVD to HDD using some type of shrinker such as DVDShrink. That's how I backup my DVDs...

[John Prophet]

yeah, it would depend on what you were going to USE the most. If you were going to only use the dvd sparingly..but you do a LOT of burning at top speed on the cdrw..then you want the cdrw as master on its own cable if possible.

Then again, all that is to get the last few% of performance...if the comp is fast enough the whole thing may be moot cuz you could probably hook em up any which way but loose and they would still work ok.

JP

[gerald_weigel]

Thanks for the input. When I get a DVD-R, I will get rid of the other DVD drive most likely.

[stebie]

Just an addition...

I have a similar query. I have a DVD+/-RW drive and a DVD-ROM drive connected to the secondary IDE controller. My question is.. is there any performance difference using the DVD+/-RW drive (mainly for writing, from files on the hard drive that's located on the primary IDE controller as master) as master or slave?

It appears that it's favoured to have the writer as the master, but is there any performance difference having it as a slave, master being a DVD-ROM, if data transfers are only from the hard drive?

Cheers,
stebie.