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I'd set the HDD as primary master, the CD-ROM as primary slave, and the DVD-RW as secondary master. That should provide the best CD to CD on-the-fly coppies (when you use your DVD-ROM for that purpose) as long as you don't do much with the hard drive while burning, and it should also provide the smoothest HDD to DVD burning.

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I personally never try to do CD to CD on the fly. Takes longer than cashing to the HDD first on my system. I have since put the DVDRW as Secondary Master, CDRW as Secondary Slave. I always leave the HDD's on Primary IDE. In fact, I'll be installing a new HDD on Primary Slave this weekend. I never recommend mixing optical and HDD on one IDE.

Pavelow

Dell 8250, i850e, 4xAGP, 2.4ghzCPU, 512mbPC1066RDRAM, 112gbATA, GeF4MX420, SBL5.1, SamSung 48xCDRW, LiteOn 851S DVDRW
RJ-45 to Compaq 9660, 233mhzCPU, 104mbFPRAM, 12mbVoodoo2, Win95a
 
The old not mixing devices rule isn't so important with modern drive controllers.

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It actually is depending on what burning software you use. I have DVDXCopy Platinum. Not the best or easiest to use, but it definitely requires that you do not put the DVDRW on the same IDE as the HDD. We (the Platinum users community) found this out the hard way after a lot of trouble shooting.

Don't know if Shrink is that buggy or concerned.

But, isn't it true that even with today's controlers, the optical drive will bring the speed down on the HDD?

Pavelow

Dell 8250, i850e, 4xAGP, 2.4ghzCPU, 512mbPC1066RDRAM, 120gbATA, GeF4MX420, SBL5.1, SamSung 48xCDRW, LiteOn 851S DVDRW
RJ-45 to Compaq 9660, 233mhzCPU, 104mbFPRAM, 12mbVoodoo2, Win95a
 
Crash, my HD is on SATA and my CD-RW is secondary master. I want to install my DVD-RW on primary master and leave my current config alone. Is that ok or should I be doing something else?

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Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
You can do that.

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ok thanks! oh, one more question, since i'm asking, is there a big difference between aux1 internal audio connector and cd1 internal audio connector? i'm using an ASUS P4P800 but i'm hoping that if there's a difference, it's the same across all mobos. the manual doesn't say anything but only tells me the difference between the modem audio connector and the other two. that's why i'm confused because before, i only needed to connect my cd-rw drive to cd1 but now i have a dvd-rw drive. which one gets cd1 and should i use aux1 for the other one?

it's on p65 in the pdf manual below. i hope you can help me with this. thanks.

Manual: http://www.asus.com/support/download/selectftp.aspx?l1_id=1&l2_id=15&l3_id=19&m_id=2&f_name=e1324_p4p800.pdf~zaqwedc

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
which one gets cd1 and should i use aux1 for the other one?
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It doesn't matter! If you enable digital CD audio in your CD/DVDRW's properties, you don't even need to connect those connectors (they are for analog audio).

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Aux and CD-In are the same thing, but using two different volume controlls so you can adjust them individually or mute one without muting the other. If you open volume controls (double click on the speaker in the task bar) and go to options>properties, you can check the box for any volume controls you want shown.

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ok, i've installed it and so far it seems to be working fine. thanks for the help to everyone who helped! 😀

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
crash, i'm experience a very strange phenomenon with my DVD-drive. I bought and installed the liteon SOHW 1633S drive. This is what i did:

Primary, master = dvd-rw drive
aux = dvd-rw drive
secondary, master = cd-rw drive
aud = cd-rw drive

the hard drive is connected to SATA.

My cd-rw can read blank media as blank media but when i try to do the same for my dvd-rw drive, it says that it's full. furthermore, when i try to open it in my computer, it gives me an error "G:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function."

I know i connected the cables correctly. i've checked that but then why is it giving me that ugly error? =/ is it because the arrangement I chose doesn't work?

oh yea. a really really silly question: i'm using the HDD cable to connect my dvd-rw drive to primary one. now don't get me wrong. i know it says HDD cable but it looks exactly the same as the cable i used for my cd-rw drive so that's why i used it. if that's the problem heh, then please tell me lol cause they look exactly the same =p.

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
I'd swap the drives and see if the DVD-RW works.

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yes. i have sp2.

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
i will try this tomorrow.

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
Alright, I did that.

Before Test...
Primary IDE Master: DVD-RW drive (problems)
Secondary IDE Master: CD-RW drive (reads, writes, everything works fine)

Primary IDE Master: CD-RW drive
Secondary IDE Master: DVD-RW drive

Results:
Data CD - reads correctly. Can browse through it in Explorer etc.
Blank CD/DVD - cannot access drive. I get "(drive letter):\ is not accessible. Incorrect function." for both drives.

Back to normal...
Primary IDE Master: DVD-RW
Secondary IDE Master: CD-RW

Results:
Both can read/write data CDs.
Both cannot read blank CD/DVDs. I get "(drive letter):\ is not accessible. Incorrect function." for both drives.

>_> Any ideas? I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers for the drives. Other than the drive letter change, nothing else happened. Furthermore, I've uninstalled everything Nero and I checked Lite-On (www.liteonit.com) for any new/updated drivers. They have none.

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
Well, it looks like I fixed it. 😀 Apparently, there's an option under properties for each drive where it allows you to select whether you want to enable the drive for recording. If you don't, you won't be able to open it in explorer and drag/drop files onto the CD/DVD for recording. Figures. Thanks for the help!

Intel P4 2.6C
2x512Mb OCZ EL DualChannel PC3200
Asus P4P800
ATI Radeon 9600XT 128Mb
ThermalRight SLK-800U
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus9 SATA 80Gb 8Mb
 
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