[KLUG Members] IDE cd burner

[Bruce Smith]

> > > 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.
> 
> Hmmm.  Does this mean that you have an IDE burner on the same controler as
> your cd-rom?

Yes.  I'd rather have everything on it's own controller, but I don't have
much choice.  It's only a problem when doing a CD to CD copy (since I don't
use my read-only CD-rom drive for much else).  Even with that setup, I can
still copy from CD to CD at 8-10X.  A little faster with burn-proof on.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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