REQ: All Right To Copy CDs on same IDE channel?

[young]

If I connect source and target CD drives to same IDE channel (primary
- slave), will I run into trouble? Or should I keep the two drives
on separate IDE channels (master-slave)? If so, why?

Thanks

 

[Mike Walsh]

If DMA is enabled on both drives it will work with both drives on the same IDE port, assuming that you can read the source drive fast enough to keep up with the writer. If DMA is not enable the throughput will be drastically reduced, and it might not be fast enough even if the drives are on separate ports.

 

[Shep©]

If I connect source and target CD drives to same IDE channel (primary
- slave), will I run into trouble? Or should I keep the two drives
on separate IDE channels (master-slave)? If so, why?

Thanks

You will most likely be OK but for speed and less chance of data
corruption it's better to have the Cdrom drives on separate IDE ports.
HTH



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[jamotto]

If I connect source and target CD drives to same IDE channel (primary
- slave), will I run into trouble? Or should I keep the two drives
on separate IDE channels (master-slave)? If so, why?

Thanks

if you intend to burn a cd from the source drive directly to the
target drive. Then yes you will have some problem which revolve
around the fact that only one drive can be active(reading or writing)
at a time on a single channel. At best you will suffer bad
performance. At worst the data will be copied wrong and the target cd
useless.

you can get around this limitation by first ripping your source cd to
your harddrive(on a diffrent channel) assuming you have enough space
to store the entire cd and when that gets done burn the copy on your
harddrive to your target cd.

if you wish to burn straight from your source drive to your target
drive they will have to be on diffrent channels.

hope this helps