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Bob..? Or anyone...

Jan 24, 2004 7:17AM PST

I have to put a 16x10x40 rewriter on the secondary channel with a 48x cdrom. Which one do I set as master?

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Re:Bob..? Or anyone...
Jan 24, 2004 8:12AM PST

I have it setup as reader as master and writer as slave.

Why?? I have no idea but it works.

I suspect if I flipped them around it would still work.

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Re:Bob..? Or anyone...
Jan 24, 2004 9:40AM PST

I have DVD/CD-ROM set as master and CD-RW as slave.

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Re:Bob..? Or anyone...
Jan 24, 2004 9:53AM PST

It shouldn't make a difference in the order, but I perfer the burner as master. However, there are times when it seems the master/slave arrangement works best for the system you have by "trial and error" thus pick the setup that works best. Also, use the 80-conducter cable for best performance. -----Willy

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Re:Bob..? Or anyone...
Jan 25, 2004 3:40AM PST

Burner master, CDROM slave to the HDD. As far as I know you can't "burn on the fly" with both on same IDE cable.