On the Fly Burning

[Kubla]

Can a CD Rom or Burner be placed as a slave on The primary Ide behind the
bootable hard drive without affecting the performance of the hard drive? I
would like to be able to burn a CD "on the fly." The OS is Win2K.
As far as I know, most CD burning programs will not copy and burn "on the
fly" when both drives are on the same Ide port.

Thanks.

 

[Bob I]

The reason is that the an IDE channel only communicates with one device
on the cable at a time. IF its feeding the CD-burner it can't talk to
the HD. If it's talking to the HD it can't talk to the CD-burner.
Depending on the amount of memory buffer on each device and its
read/write speed there may not be noticible interference or you may burn
frisbies. So there you have the reasons and you can determine the answer
based on your hardware.

 

[Josef Stalin]

Can a CD Rom or Burner be placed as a slave on The primary Ide behind the
bootable hard drive without affecting the performance of the hard drive? I
would like to be able to burn a CD "on the fly." The OS is Win2K.
As far as I know, most CD burning programs will not copy and burn "on the
fly" when both drives are on the same Ide port.

Thanks.

As I understand it, the CD and the hard disk have to be on separate cables
and ensure that transfer modes are set to 'DMA if available' for both IDE
devices. This is the way I have set up my home computers.

 

[Kubla]

Well, I guess that answers my question. In my personal machine, I'm using a
SCSI burner and a SCSI reader so I have no problems. When is IDE going to
the 3rd channel or will it be SATA?

 

[Bob I]

Get a 3rd channel? As soon as you buy a card an install it.
The IDE standard provides for 4 channels/header and 2 devices per
channel/header. Motherboards usually are only manufactured with 2 BUT
you can get ones with 4 or as I said above you can install PCI cards
with additional channels.