A little note about connecting up CD and CDR/CDRW drives:

My drives came with instructions as to how to connect
up the drives. I followed the notes exactly and had
miserable results. Then I decided to connect the drives
up the way that made sense to me, based on my understanding
of the IDE motherboard systems. BINGO! Now my units work
like a charm.

Here is what you want to do:

Place your Hard Drive and regular CDROM drive on the 1st
IDE controller.

Place your CDROM burner on the 2nd IDE controller.

This allows concurrent operation of the CDROM burner
and the other devices, slightly speeding up the transfer
of data TO the CDROM burner.

On many systems it really doesn't matter which IDE
controller you use: but if you are experiencing difficulty
with your CDROM burner, try adjusting the system to
the above configuration. Keep the CDROM burner on
the second IDE controller, preferably all by itself.

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