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02-24-2006, 01:53 PM
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Adding DVD burner to PC with CD burner
I bought a DVD burner to add to my PC which already has a CD burner installed. Should the DVD burner be cabled before the CD burner?
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02-24-2006, 04:48 PM
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Why don't you just replace the CD burner with the DVD burner? It will read and burn CD's and DVD's. If you want to add it, it doesn't matter where you put it as long as you set the jumpers correctly.
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02-25-2006, 06:57 AM
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Adding a second burner to a PC.
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Thanks for the info re adding the DVD burner and the jumpers. But, by "correctly" you mean - what? TIA |
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02-25-2006, 08:42 AM
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Make sure one is jumpered master the other slave if they are on the same ide cable
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02-25-2006, 10:27 AM
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Does it matter which drive I set to be the master? TIA |
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02-25-2006, 12:30 PM
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Nope. If you are using an 80 wire Ultra ATA cable, you jumper both drives CS - the one on the end will be master and the one in the middle will be slave.
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02-25-2006, 12:33 PM
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02-25-2006, 05:14 PM
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Be careful when using two optical drives to copy from one to the other. Some software will tell that the results are not very reliable unless both drives are identical.
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