DVD-ROM / CD RW / HD Drives

[Guest]

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HI I have a DVD Rom, CD RW and HD in my PC
The DVD drive will not work as a slave to the HD or RW. it only works as a master on its own IDE cable.
It worked as a slave under Win98_SE but after upgrading to XP Pro I have to run it as a master
I would like to use the CD RW as a Master on it's own cable and the DVD as a slave to the HD so as I get better data transfer speeds when writting to CD's.
I have of course tried getting all updated drivers even for the Bios and IDE controller.

Any sugestions?

 

[sue]

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better to keep the cd and dvd together, the dvd will slow the HD down.

 

[Guest]

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Check jumpers at the rear of the optical drives. Sounds as if you have them
set incorrectly.


"Pole" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> HI I have a DVD Rom, CD RW and HD in my PC
> The DVD drive will not work as a slave to the HD or RW. it only works as a
master on its own IDE cable.
> It worked as a slave under Win98_SE but after upgrading to XP Pro I have
to run it as a master
> I would like to use the CD RW as a Master on it's own cable and the DVD as
a slave to the HD so as I get better data transfer speeds when writting to
CD's.
> I have of course tried getting all updated drivers even for the Bios and
IDE controller.
>
> Any sugestions?

 

[Guest]

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No, it won't.


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Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
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"Sue" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
> better to keep the cd and dvd together, the dvd will slow the HD down.