Re: Installing SECOND DVD

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It is never recommended to connect any other type of drive onto the same IDE
cable of the hard drives.

One possible config:

Make old NEC DVD+RW slave to Sony DVD+/-R DL master.



On 06/12/2005 bently <ben@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>
>Using win XP home, sp2. 1 GIG memory. Motherboard... MSI KM2M ,
>KM266-8235-6A6LVM4DC-00
>
>Currently have 80 gig wd hdd as primary, and 40 gig hdd as slave on one
>ribbon.
>
>Have NEC DVD+RW nd-1000 on another ribbon.
>
>Have new SONY DVD/CD, DVD+/-R dual layer,double layer to install.
>
>Should I slave one of the DVD to another? (which would be slave)?
>
>Or should I make each HDD as primary and make each DVD as slave to the HDD?
>
>Thanks,
>
>bently

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