I have a dvd writer already installed in my PC... and i also have a spare cd writer lying with me.. i wanna install that too... well, i can easily fix it in but there's no extra IDE on the motherboard (there are two, one for the floppy and the other one is the primary...) I have a SATA hard drive so the dvd writer is connected to the primary.... but i see there's an ide port on the bus cable of the dvd writer... can i connect to that? and if i can then would i have to change setting (master/slave etc setting) on the cd writer.......
2007-01-05 02:43:31 · 5 answers · asked by guneet1988 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
you can put both of the cd rom drives on the same cable. Change the jumper settings on one of the drives to master, and the other drive to slave and plug them both in. Your all set
2007-01-05 02:46:14 · answer #1 · answered by Deftoner_01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you have 2 drives (CD or DVD) connected to the 2 IDE sockets on an IDE cable, then one should have its links set to master and the other to slave. If you only have 1 drive on the cable and it's links are set to master, then you just connect the other drive to the spare connector on cable and set its links to slave.
The 1st drive may have link-options where you have no choice, just 'master' or it may have a choice of 'master in a one drive system' (1 device on the cable) or 'master in a 2 drive system' (its the master, but a 2nd drive has been plugged into the same cable), in which case, set the links of the 1st drive for 'master in a 2 drive system' and the links of the 2nd drive to 'slave'.
The floppy is nothing to do with it. Its a cable with a different number of wires.
2007-01-05 02:52:30 · answer #2 · answered by ricochet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You should have a primary ide, a secondary ide and the floppy. You should be able to run four ide drives on your computer.
if you have two drives on one ide cable, one has to be master and the other has to be slave.
If you have one drive on the primary or the secondary, then they should both be master.
2007-01-05 02:48:02 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ok, once you reproduction a disc (any CD or DVD) you will desire 2 drives, the source stress, and the trip spot stress. So once you reproduction a DVD, it desires the sparkling media to write all the way down to. i'm undecided if there is a thank you to alter it so as that it may write back to the stress you copied the unique disc from as i've got in no way had to try this. So in the event that they are the two on the device (say D stress is your CD stress and E stress is your DVD stress), then you truly can use them one after the different as is, yet to no longer burn DVDs, you will desire yet another DVD stress for that, except you could in a roundabout way set it as much as write down back to the stress after putting a sparkling disc. the only incorrect thank you to accomplish that, however (as I only now concept approximately this) is to create an ISO image (in case you have the utility to accomplish that), then use that to burn to the stress using the utility (including Nero).
2016-11-26 21:15:48 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's easy-er to just get a plug in exterior drive.
2007-01-05 02:52:39 · answer #5 · answered by oldmanwitastick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋