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"AndrewJ" <andrewjbbrREMOVE@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>I have my 2 IDE slots on my motherboard. My HD is in one, and the CD-RW
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>>in the other.
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>>How would I go about installing the DVD burner?
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> It must go on the cable with the CD-RW. The burner on the last
> connector on the cable will be set to Master. Normally by putting the
> jumper on the back of the drive to the pins marked "M". The drive on
> the center connector of the IDE cable should be set to Slave. By
> putting the jumper to the pins marked "S", in most cases.
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> You never put an optical drive on a cable with a HDD. The IDE
> controller defaults all drives on the cable to the speed of the
> slowest drive. There aren't many cases where you want a HDD to run at
> the snails speed of a CD/DVD drive.
I guess he could also just remove the CD-RW drive, replace it with the DVD
burner and use the DVD burner for everything now.
Having a CD drive on the same IDE no longer causes hard drives to run at the
speed of the CD drive.