[KLUG Members] IDE cd burner

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On 15 Jul 2001 22:22:01 -0400, Patrick Mc Govern wrote:
>>>2.  I have a 450 P3 with 128 RAM and an Abit MB. It has 2 IDE hard
>>>drives on one controler and one cd-rom on the other.  Can I put
>>>the cd-burner on the same controler as the cd-rom using a dual interface
>>>cable?
>>That's the way mine is setup, and it's no problem with burnproof!  :-)
>>Without burnproof, I wouldn't be able to do a CD to CD copy at anything
>>faster than 8X.
>mmm.  Does this mean that you have an IDE burner on the same controler as
>your cd-rom?

Yes,  you can get away with that if you have BurnProof,  but realizing
if you have to excerise the burnproof feature you've lost some of the
performance that you paid for.  Having the second device on the IDE
chain should only hurt performance if you USE it while burning a CD
(which of course you would if you were copying CDs).  If the burner has
a big enough on-drive buffer and your machine is not underload you
shouldn't really have any problems under Linux.  Burning CDs (in my
experience) under WinXX is a crap shoot.

Of course I still recommend SCSI to avoid all these problems and allow
for even more expandability (why not have three burners if your going to
make alot of CDs).  I'd also ask yourself how often you will burn a CD,
and if spending $XXX for a 4,000x speed burner is worthwhile,  you can
get 6x and 8x burners for what I got paid to mow lawns when I was but a
wee lad.  A 24x burner or an 8x burner + SCSI controller + another 128Mb
of RAM?  It's a bang for the buck argument.  In 9 ~ 12 months maybe I'll
add a 24x burner when they are giving them away by the truck load.