Guest RBB Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 I have one HD and a CD/DVD reader. I also have a CD-RW and a DVD-RW. I am not sure which is set to Master and which is set to Slave or Cable Select. If someone would be kind enough to tell me the proper way of configuring my installed hardware, I will dismantel and re-assemble my computer again. It is not a store bought computer but one that I have assembled. thank you for the knowledge.
Guest R. McCarty Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: How do I properly configure my hardware The days of needing/requiring multiple Optical drives in a desktop PC are mostly gone. Since you have a DVD-RW I'd just use it as your only optical drive. Assuming your technology is PATA (wide, flat cables) you can assign each device as Master on it's own IDE channel ( Primary/Secondary ). Using a single drive can still copy disks it just takes a little longer to do the Read/Copy operation. "RBB" <RBB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8E5E231C-39A9-4B60-BA01-C550EF1B0101@microsoft.com... >I have one HD and a CD/DVD reader. I also have a CD-RW and a DVD-RW. > > I am not sure which is set to Master and which is set to Slave or Cable > Select. > > If someone would be kind enough to tell me the proper way of configuring > my > installed hardware, I will dismantel and re-assemble my computer again. > > It is not a store bought computer but one that I have assembled. thank > you > for the knowledge.
Guest Dave B. Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: How do I properly configure my hardware There really is no need for all those drives, your DVD burner likely also burns cd-r, I would loose the cdrw drive and just keep the dvd burner and the dvd rom. Set the hard drive as master on the primary IDE channel, the DVD drives as master/slave on the secondary channel. -- ---- Crosspost, do not multipost http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm How to ask a question http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 How to Post http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "RBB" <RBB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8E5E231C-39A9-4B60-BA01-C550EF1B0101@microsoft.com... >I have one HD and a CD/DVD reader. I also have a CD-RW and a DVD-RW. > > I am not sure which is set to Master and which is set to Slave or Cable > Select. > > If someone would be kind enough to tell me the proper way of configuring > my > installed hardware, I will dismantel and re-assemble my computer again. > > It is not a store bought computer but one that I have assembled. thank > you > for the knowledge.
Guest HeyBub Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: How do I properly configure my hardware RBB wrote: > I have one HD and a CD/DVD reader. I also have a CD-RW and a DVD-RW. > > I am not sure which is set to Master and which is set to Slave or > Cable Select. > > If someone would be kind enough to tell me the proper way of > configuring my installed hardware, I will dismantel and re-assemble > my computer again. > > It is not a store bought computer but one that I have assembled. > thank you for the knowledge. The most-used device should be a "master" (usually your hard drive) on one IDE channel. Your least used optical device should be the "slave" on that same channel. Likewise for the other IDE channel. "Master" and "slave" are set via shorting blocks next to the power and data plugs on the drives. Forget about "cable select," it is virtually unused in the universe of normal folk. (The cable would be split and some of the wires flipped - if your data cable is uniformly flat, it's not a "cable select" cable.) As an aside, there was a movement not long back to change the designations of "master" and "slave" to "primary and secondary" or "zero and one" or "husband and wife" or some other politically-correct designations.
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 21, 2007 Posted August 21, 2007 Re: How do I properly configure my hardware Make whichever device you are going to use most the Master on the Secondary channel, make the other one the Slave on that same channel. Most importantly, if you are going to use one in a direct-write mode (where the CD or DVD disk is constantly available and you can simply drag and drop to automatically write the files, without having to stop and tell it to write), then make that one Master. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "RBB" <RBB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:8E5E231C-39A9-4B60-BA01-C550EF1B0101@microsoft.com... >I have one HD and a CD/DVD reader. I also have a CD-RW and a DVD-RW. > > I am not sure which is set to Master and which is set to Slave or Cable > Select. > > If someone would be kind enough to tell me the proper way of configuring > my > installed hardware, I will dismantel and re-assemble my computer again. > > It is not a store bought computer but one that I have assembled. thank > you > for the knowledge.
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