What should I do?!?

[IvIark]

I thought this was a bit off topic for the "Hardware" sections so I thought I'd ask for peoples opinions here.

I've just bought a new Pioneer A05 and want to install it but already have a DVD-Rom and a separate CD writer in my PC (secondary master and secondary slave - I also have 2 hard drives as my primary master and slave). Now I'm in a quandry because I don't want to rely on the A05 to rip films to my hard disk because it's too slow (my existing DVD-Rom will pretty much rip any film in 10 minutes), but I also have occassions when I want to copy and write CD+G which I believe the A05 can't handle and so will still need my old CD writer from time to time.

My PC is a Fujitsu P4 1800, running XP Home.

So what would you do in this situation? Is there any way the rip speed of the A05 can be improved?

Thanks
Mark

[Craig Tucker]

Is the problem just the fact that you do not have a free IDE channel, or are you out of empty 5 1/4" bays as well. If you still have space in your case and you have a free pci slot you can buy a PCI ide controller card that will give you another 4 IDE channels. As far as the limited ripping speed, I don't think you can do anything to change that. If you are out of bays also, you could consider an external firewire enclosure.

[IvIark]

Thanks for the info. I do have a free bay and so I'll look around to see what PCI IDE controllers are available.

Thanks again
Mark