DVD-/+rw

[Ron]

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Does anyone know how I can add an internal DVD-RW to a system that has a DVD+R and a CD-ROM. I guess is it possible to have 2 slaves and 1 master? Thanks

 

[Guest]

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No, one slave per master. However there is nothing to stop you having one
hard drive and three optical drives...or three hard drives and one optical
drive.

Any more than that and you can get a PCI controller card.
--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com



"ron" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know how I can add an internal DVD-RW to a system that has a
DVD+R and a CD-ROM. I guess is it possible to have 2 slaves and 1 master?
Thanks

 

[Ron]

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So I can slave the new DVD-/+rw off the hard drive?

 

[Guest]

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Yes you can.

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Jason Tsang - Microsoft MVP

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"ron" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> So I can slave the new DVD-/+rw off the hard drive?

 

[peter]

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Hi,

As Jason said yes you can but beware of conflicts if you have more than one RW drive on the same PC.

Peter

 

[Ron]

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I do have another DVD-RW and a CD-ROM installed. I have a dell that uses CS jumpers, do you think it will work? Basically I want 2 DVD optical drives and not sacarfice the CD-ROM. Do DVD drives function as CD-ROM drives too? Thanks

 

[peter]

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Yes, it should work as a CD-Rom. But there may be problems when you burn CDs. XP may not work properly if you have 2 burners in the OS.

For myselves, I just use aDVD-Rom and a DVD burner.

Peter


----- ron wrote: -----

I do have another DVD-RW and a CD-ROM installed. I have a dell that uses CS jumpers, do you think it will work? Basically I want 2 DVD optical drives and not sacarfice the CD-ROM. Do DVD drives function as CD-ROM drives too? Thanks

 

[Ron]

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Thanks

 

[Paul]

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Well, no thats wrong too.

I use a Pioneer 4x dual DVD writer and an Asus 52x CDRW, in this system. No
probs at all. No conflicts. On the secondary IDE on an Asus P4P800 mobo.

They work independent of each other. The DVD is
the master (I use it only for burning to DVD thru Nero), and the normal CD
writer is the slave (Used with CD
Creator 6).




"Peter" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, it should work as a CD-Rom. But there may be problems when you burn
CDs. XP may not work properly if you have 2 burners in the OS.
>
> For myselves, I just use aDVD-Rom and a DVD burner.
>
> Peter
>
>
> ----- ron wrote: -----
>
> I do have another DVD-RW and a CD-ROM installed. I have a dell that
uses CS jumpers, do you think it will work? Basically I want 2 DVD optical
drives and not sacarfice the CD-ROM. Do DVD drives function as CD-ROM drives
too? Thanks