CDRW installation?

You need to change the drive jumpers.

Set one drive to master, and the other drive to slave.

The cable select setting is only valid if you have:
a. a single drive on the channel.
b. a special IDE cable that is wired to select which drive is master and slave by which connector is connected.

Also, if you have a high speed CD-RW, and are planning to copy CDs, it is recommended that the drives be installed on different channels.

Make the DVD drive a slave on the channel with the Hard drive.

Make the CD-RW drive a single or master on the second IDE channel.
If you have 2 HDs. Make the second HD master on the second IDE channell, and the CD-RW the slave.

Using Cable select specifies a special cale to be used
Reset the jumpers on the DVD to Master and CD-RW to Slave on the second IDE Controller or to your preferences
The files can be copied from the hard drive as would burning a cd

The DVD should be set to master on the second IDE channel with the CDRW set to slave on the same channel if possible. You dont want to use cable select it is not always perform as you are expecting. The DVD uses more resources and should be the master whenever possible. It is best to have the HDD on a channel alone because putting one of the ROM drives with HDD could bog your system down or cause you problems at boot.

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