cd rom adn burner

it pretty much depends on the cdrw drive model. see mfg's website for recommendations. if it seems to work like you have it setup, it is probably fine. what you may be thinking of is, for cd to cd copies, you may get better performance with the burner on a separate *controller* than the reader...hope this helps..

I would install the CD/RW as the Master and CD-ROM as slave on the secondary IDE controller,check the documentation with the CD/RW that came with the system

Depending on the speed of your burner, installing the CD-RW drive as the slave on the same channel with the CD source drive can slow down the burning process when copying CDs.

I use motherboards with extra IDE controllers, and set the Master CD-ROM drive as the slave on the Primary IDE channel. (My hard drives are on a separate controller.)
I then install the CD-RW drive as either master or slave on the secondary IDE channel.

For the fastest recording speed, you want to have the Source (HDD or CD) on a different IDE channel than the Target (CD-RW).

Look at it this way:
When you record a CD or data file, the data is transfered from the source drive to the IDE controller, then to the recording buffer.
From the buffer, the data issent to the IDE controller then to the CD-RW drive.
If both the source and target drives are on the same IDE channel, the data has to travel both directions on the same cable.
This will slow down the recording process, and can cause the creation of 'coasters' (bad CDs) if you do not have buffer under-run protection.

Chas

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