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cd and cd-rw won't cooperate

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by froggieb

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I have a cd and a cd-rw on my computer. I cannot get the 2 of them to work together. Why does this happen? And is it fixable?

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by froggieb

I can't get the cd-rw to work at all in copying things.

by older mycroft

By and large, you'll have zero success.

It's a commonly held misconception that it you have a PC with 2 optical drives, you can copy straight from one to the other. THAT doesn't work.

In most cases, the 'writing' optical drive requires a throughput of data at a data-rate that the 'reading' optical drive is inherently incapable of.

The only media hardware that is capable of a sustained high-data-rate suitable for a 'writing' optical drive, is the hard drive inside a computer.

If your computer had TWO hard drives, technically you could then fully use BOTH optical drives: one recording to one hard drive, the second writing from the second hard drive.

If none of this applies to you, can you be a bit more detailed as to what your problem is.

Brevity of detail doesn't help us work out what your problem is. :)

by 1bn0

If the drives are connected on the same IDE cable they must be jumpered correctly to co-exist.

At the back of the drive you will see a 6 pin jumper block

CSM
SLA
:::

Jumper one drive as master and the other as slave. Doesn't matter which one is which.
(Jumper = place a jumper click over the corresponding vertical pair of pins)

CSM
SLA
::| Master

CSM
SLA
:|: Slave

http://www.mysuperpc.com/pc_assembly/computer_install_cdrom.shtml

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