Help Paiktis with his godamn CD-Recorder

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by blackice
The brown slot to the right of the other IDE's is the third IDE option obviously it was added

I think so too. If this is indeed the case, then those "morons" at the store did the most important thing right

[blackice]

You may have to move the cdrom down a slot to make it work or as I say with newer boards plug the middle to the hd and the end to the cdrom. It makes no difference on newer boards.

[blackice]

/edit mybad do you have a floppy drive?

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by blackice
/edit mybad do you have a floppy drive?

yep I do, a 3.5. it has a cable which goes to another part of the board.

the HD and the CD-ROM IDE cables go elsewhere.

to the left of those two slots is the one free slot I'm talking about. (it has the same size as the other two).

[blackice]

Then this is not the same board

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by blackice
The brown slot to the right of the other IDE's is the third IDE option obviously it was added
/edit mybad do you have a floppy drive?

ditto mine about three IDE's, you live and learn!!!

[Bereta_Eder]

Then this is not the same board

oh damn

well...

anyway, your instructions were crystal clear anyway.

BUT from your last post, I gather that I can't connect an IDE cable to the middle socket of my HD IDE cable...

I have to make it work with that one cable.

(might be hard but I think I'll manage. But the CD-ROM will DEFINITELY go to the end of the cable...)

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by blackice
The HD will be made: master

the CD - ROM will be made :slave

and the Burner master

Pak, do this you can't go wrong

if it turns out the other slot is ok then you can switch later

[reds4ever]

pak,

you have 2 cables, one with a split?

1 cable goes straight from the MB to your CD Recorder

the one with the split goes from your MB to your HD with your existing CDROM in the split

[blackice]

BUT from your last post, I gather that I can't connect an IDE cable to the middle socket of my HD IDE cable...

You can attach the cdrom to the end of the ide cable and the hd to the middle of the same cable then do what red just posted.

Check all your cables make sure they are in firm and the jumpers are right on both cdroms. Tighten up your new cdrom put on cover and start it up

[Ethelred]

You want to be sure NOT to put either the CR-ROM or the CD burner on the same cable as a hard drive.

Primary

Master Hard drive

Slave Hard drive

Secondary

Master CD Burner

Slave CD Rom or DVD

Or you could master a DVD and not the burner. It generaly doesn't matter. What does matter is that an IDE chain uses the SLOWEST protocol for either device for both devices. As a consequence if you put a ATA 66 Hard drive as a master and PIO Mode 4 CD burner on the same cable the hard drive will have to run at PIO mode 4 instead of ATA 66.

Best is one item per cable. Then they can all be a master. I have all my hard drives on a Promise Fastrack 100 instead of on the motherboard. I have a DVD player hooked up to the Primary IDE connection as a master and a burner on the Secondary also as master on the mother board connectors which are only ATA 33 but that is enough for the DVD and IDE.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by reds4ever


Pak, do this you can't go wrong

if it turns out the other slot is ok then you can switch later

Red, it is a huge hussle for a computer illitarate like myself

I prefere to get that IDE cable and try to connect the Burner to the 3rd free IDE slot and get it over with.

I will take out the IDE cable of the CD-ROM and try it in that 3rd slot just to be sure it actually IS an IDE slot though, so I dont buy an IDE cable I would not need.


BTW, you guys are great, thank you guys

[blackice]

The only chaintech MB I found so far is the dual processor one. Your best bet is to make the ide cable work by using the end to the cdrom and the middle to the hd. I would not put it in the other slot till you have the specs for your mb. nope not me

[reds4ever]

Originally posted by Ethelred
You want to be sure NOT to put either the CR-ROM or the CD burner on the same cable as a hard drive.

Primary

Master Hard drive

Slave Hard drive

Secondary

Master CD Burner

Slave CD Rom or DVD

Or you could master a DVD and not the burner. It generaly doesn't matter. What does matter is that an IDE chain uses the SLOWEST protocol for either device for both devices. As a consequence if you put a ATA 66 Hard drive as a master and PIO Mode 4 CD burner on the same cable the hard drive will have to run at PIO mode 4 instead of ATA 66.

Best is one item per cable. Then they can all be a master. I have all my hard drives on a Promise Fastrack 100 instead of on the motherboard. I have a DVD player hooked up to the Primary IDE connection as a master and a burner on the Secondary also as master on the mother board connectors which are only ATA 33 but that is enough for the DVD and IDE.

and i thought i wasn't getting MY point across very well

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by Ethelred
You want to be sure NOT to put either the CR-ROM or the CD burner on the same cable as a hard drive.

Uh oh.... That screws up everything we have said...

I didnt understand all of the rest of the post, but THAT was exactly what I would do, if there's not a 3rd IDE slot.

Blackice, Red?