Wireing IDE

[Oromocto]

I have a two year old Dell 4100, 1Ghz, 512MB memory. It has two drives, a CD-ROM and a CD-RW.
CD is a Lite-On LTN483s 48XMAX
CD-RW is a LG CD-RW CED-8080B

My first attempt at copying a CD-R using my new NER0-6 burning program brought up the following box: “It looks like both your source and destination drives are connected to the same IDE Bus. It is recommended that you connect to a different bus.”

A printout of my system settings confirmed that the two drives were indeed connected to the same bus. It seems to me that that would not show up as a problem except while copying disks.

I am educated and have long experience in electronics (FAA Radar) but do not know my way around inside a PC. I probably would not recognize the IDE Bus if I saw it.

Can anyone help me here? Apparently I need to connect the CD-RW to the Secondary IDE Slave (Which my printout says is not installed).

[John Prophet]

Well, it is usually recommended that the cdrw and cd be on seperate IDE channels....but pretty much the only time it would come into play is if you are doing disk to disk copying "on the fly".

In other words, for instance, you put in a music cd and make a copy "on the fly" without having Nero copy an image of the cd to the hard drive first.

Other than that it wont make any difference.

The issue being that only one drive can "use" the ide cable at one time...so while one is writing the other cant be reading etc etc. So the setup is not ideal.

But if youre not real familiar with comps, it may not be wort the trouble to make it "ideal".

You may just want to try it first and see if it burns cd's ok etc.

But if you want, we can guide you step by step thru the entire procedure...its not hard per se, just a few little details etc.

[stroyal]

there will be two ribbon cables with 2 plugs each.
Generaly you want your HD on IDE1 master and your burner on IDE2 Master. The rub is where you put your CD ROM.
If you put it on IDE1 slave, you can rip disk to disk, but your CD ROM will load the HD slower.
If you put it on IDE2 slave it will load the HD faster but you will not be able to rip from CD to CD

I use a second controler so they both can work at there best