Re: Can't Burn CDs

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"Fulcanelli" <fulcanelli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What I'm trying to learn here is what those three designations signify.
How does it affect the CD-R to be selected MA, SL, or CS? What
circumstances would one want a CD-R to be the MASTER? Or the SLAVE? I
do have a chart that shows which setting is which, but I'd like to try
to make an intelligent guess rather than shut down, disconnect, move my
computer (it's on carpet and I prefer not to work on it there) and do
the deed.

Thanks.


Fulcanelli:
I'm somewhat puzzled over your subject line that reads "Can't Burn CDs" and
your actual query. Is your "real" problem that you're having some difficulty
burning CDs that you attribute to optical device(s) configuration?

You'll probably receive responses to your query recommending this or that
configuration re connecting your IDE/ATAPI devices. Based on my experience,
other than connecting your booting HD as Primary Master (in nearly all
cases), it makes little difference performance-wise how the remainder of
your devices, including optical drives, are connected to the motherboard's
IDE connectors. A few years ago a computer facility I was associated with
made rather extensive tests on this very subject. The bottom line is that we
found virtually no significant differences performance-wise based on IDE
device configuration. There were a few rather minor exceptions to this
although even here we couldn't come up with a common denominator except in
one particular case -- where massive amounts of data (gigabytes) were moving
between two hard drives (mostly involving video encoding/decoding
operations) it was always best to connect both drives on the same IDE
channel.

I realize your query is couched in terms of Master, Slave, & Cable Select.
Cable Select, of course, just allows you to connect a device as Master of
Slave based upon whether the device is connected to the end or middle
connector of the (80-wire) IDE signal/data cable.

Again, with the obvious connection of your boot drive as Primary Master, it
probably makes little or no difference how your other IDE/ATAPI devices are
connected on either the Primary or Secondary IDE channel or whether they're
configured as Master or Slave on a particular channel.

As to your optical drives, it's easy enough for you to conduct your own
tests on your machine to determine if there's any difference
performance-wise. Should you find any significant difference connect them
accordingly.
Anna


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