Just two quick questions:
I currently have three drives in my machine; a DVD burner, a DVD rom and a HDD. The HDD is on its own, while the DVD drives are on the same cable.
I want to swap the cables so that the burner is on its own and the rom and HDD are on the other... However at the moment, the cables have trouble reaching another as the HDD and disc drives are housed far apart.
If I turn my machine off, plug the Rom in with the HDD, have the burner on the other cable with the jumpers as:
Hard drive = master
DVD ROM = slave
Burner = Master
and then turn the machine back on, will everything boot up OK?? Do I need to let anything know I am about to make a change?? Any help would be great!!
Thanks
Secondly, I would like to know why my ROM always has 'no cd in the drive' is this due to them being on the same cable and it not reading from it??
Thirdly (pushing my luck) "My Computer" still has the CDRW showing up, even though I replaced it with this burner long ago... How do I tell it the cdrw has gone for good? Because at the moment it shows the dvdrom, burner and old cdrw... :
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They are called IDE cables, and if were you i'd just buy a longer one if what your talking about is possible.
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I think you're better off the way you have it.
If your DVD-ROM did work (that's another matter, why it won't see a disk ), you would use it to rip a DVD from IDE2 to the HDD on IDE1, a constant read-write, whereas, on the same cable, read the RAM full, stop, write to the HDD, stop, repeat.
Burning, in the same vein, will send a constant stream of data from HDD, IDE1, to Burner, IDE2. No buffer underruns.
You are not going to do an on the fly copy from the DVD-ROM to the DVD Burner.
To remove your CD-RW, just go into control panel, highlight it and click remove, preferably inj Safe Mode, as lots of stuff shows up there that does not in normal mode.
I, personally, think the reason all those additional things show up, in Safe Mode, other than the OEMs install all the drivers for all the devices that "may" be installed in their line, is moving drives from here to there.
I do move drives around, one machine to another, and when it, inevitably, crashes, Safe Mode" will show 6 Type 47, or whatever, drives, plus what is actually there, some by name, Maxtor, WD, whatever.
They get added, but not removed when you take them out.
Windows gets confused, clean out your Control Panel>Device manager of all this non-existent stuff. -
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Longer cables are not his problem.
For one, an 80 wire ATA66 and up cable is spec'd at 18 inches max. There is supposed signal degradation with longer cables.
For two, a longer cable has the drive end connectors at 6 inch spacing, the extra length is on the board end. His problem is the distance between the 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 bays, and the orientation of the connectors on that end.
You can get these cables in 2 different orientations, but it's hit or miss, what comes with a drive. There's no A or B type, so far as I know, just 1 company crimps them on one way, another crimps them on the other way. -
I'm with gmatov on this one. Just keep it like you have it.
However, if you did change it like you said, everything would be fine. Your drive letters may change (but you can put them back in Windows if you want)."A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct."
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Did anyone mention jumpers? I always set them to cable select so that I don't go "d'oh" after changing things around
As long as your OS is recognizing the drive I would think it more likely there's a media error if it says it can't read the CD/DVD. You could always check for the latest BIOS for the drives, but if you don't know what you're doing you can make some fun problems for yourself that way.
As far as the CDRW drive try hitting F5 when the window is open that shows it to refresh the window. Sometimes it's just still sitting in there for some reason and refresh will make it go away. Other than that I can't think why it would still be listed. Is the drive still listed in the Device Mangler?
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