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| 25526 | 2001-11-25 09:52:00 | Hi, I'm wondering, after searching at Googles and reading tomshardware.com, if any one knows of a good web page that could tell me how to add a cd-rw when i already have a cd-rom drive. If somebody could explain it, then even better! I hope to get information that tells me how to connect the cable; to ide1 or 2, set as slave? what i think is connecting my hard drive to ide1 as master, then my cd-rom and cd-rw to ide2 with cd-rom as master and cd-rw as slave? is that right. after that what are the processes to set it up; e.g what do i do in the bios (anything) and then i know for sure some drivers have to be installed. Am i right? I have a piii616 with 17gb 384 ram running win98sec and 50x cd rom thanks |
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| 25527 | 2001-11-25 10:29:00 | Right, I think your scenario is best, ie IDE1 Hard drive as master; IDE2 CD ROM's 1 set as master and the other as slave(they are set by jumpers on the drive (probably rear), which will be labelled, MA SL etc.); you need an IDE cable that has 3 IDE plugs, 1 into the IDE2(m/b) the others going to the CD ROM's. Plug in power to both drives, the only way it fits. Easy. Remember touch the case before venturing inside it(antistatic). Your BIOS should automatically recognise the drives(if slave/master set right) and BIOS set to auto(it should be). WIndows should recognise also but you will need to instal the software that came with it to start writing CD's. PS. I think CD RW should be master because its more important for data transfer(my theory anyway)? Did I miss anything? |
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| 25528 | 2001-11-25 13:40:00 | Most drives recomend that they are set as master. You can change the drive letters arround in windows if you want your cd-rom as D:. |
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| 25529 | 2001-11-25 14:13:00 | Hi, I recently installed an Acer CD RW drive, and the instructions that came with it recommended that the RW drive should be set at as slave. The jumpres were set as such. Go slowly and think ahead; the rest is easy. The only thing that I got stuck on was the ammount of force needed to insert the connectors. Good luck | Guest (0) | ||
| 25530 | 2001-11-25 21:32:00 | If you can get the NZ PC WORLD Dec 2000/Jan 2001 edition this will show you how to do it with diagrams Ian |
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