CD-RW Drive

From: Brett Wish <bwish_at_pcfa.org>
Date: Tue Feb 2 12:37:23 1999

> ->One detail that you might need to check: does the CD-RW share the IDE
> >channel with the CD-ROM? A lot of recorders will spit out bad CD's
> >because of this. I've had two drives that either wouldn't record at the
> >right speed or would bomb when writing the table of contents to the disc.
> >
> >Brett
>
>
> I think you may have something here Brett, Yes they do share the same IDE
> cable, one is Master , one is slave..
> Problem is I also have a master & slave ide hard drive on the other cable..
> I will try changing the cableing, did not know this was a problem, the book
> does not tell of this potential problem of sharing two cdrom drives on the
> same ide cable..
> Phil...


Hopefully that'll fix your problem, but it's also possible that it'll do
the same thing with the other hard drive if you swap channels around.
It's worth a shot, though.
Received on Tue Feb 02 1999 - 12:37:23 GMT