CD Writer - Master or Slave?

[Fozzee]

Simple question.
I have 80gb Hard Drive and a CD Writer/DVD Combo.
Obviously the Hard Drive goes on Primary Master.
But what about the CD Writer?
Primary Slave or Secondary Master?
Does it make a difference?

Cheers

Fozzee

[Treebeard]

I would use the Secondary master. keep HD's on the same IDE and cd/dvd drives on the other IDE.

[puertorican138]

I would use the Secondary master. keep HD's on the same IDE and cd/dvd drives on the other IDE.

I use secondary master for my CD Writer also.

[pbhalerao]

I have 120GB WD HDD, TDK veloCD 321040x CD-RW, and LG DVD-ROM. Obviously, the HDD is the Primary Master. My DVD-ROM is Secondary master and DR-RW is secondary slave.

For you, your combo drive should be Secondary Master IMHO.

[dlb]

I have my optical drives set on cable select - what is the difference ?
I have had no problems with burning, ripping etc.

dlb.