Thomas, it is not a good idea to cascade CD-ROMs and HDDs on the same channel, especially in today's fast ATA-66 motherboards; this affects the throughput from your hard disks. Regards, Anand ----- Original Message ----- From: Thomas McGahee To: Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 07:56 PM Subject: [OT]: CD archiving > 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. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics > (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics > > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.