Hi I have bought this drive http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/126226.
I have fitted several drives and even built a PC in the past but need some advice. I am a little rusty so forgive anything I get wrong and please correct me.
In my PC it has two IDE connections on the motherboard both used, IDE1 has my HD on it and a DVD ROM on it as slave. The cable is the fine ribbon kind, I believe it is an 80 way ribbon as oposed to a 40. IDE2 has a CD writer on it set as master and the cable is bigger gauge ie I think that one is 40 way.
Now I have replaced the DVD ROM with the new DVD writer mentioned at the top of my post and set it as slave, but someone mentioned to me in a previous posting that you should not mix optical drives with harddrives on the same cable but it has always been that the DVD ROM was on the same 80 way cable as the HD and it seemed to work fine.
I have just tried the new DVD writer with a bought music CD and it works fine.
So now the questions.
If one IDE can take an 80 way cable would it probably follow that both could?
What would be the benefit if I changed the 40 way one for an 80 way one?
Would the CD writer that has been in this PC since 2002 when I bought the PC be ok with an 80 way cable?
If I should not mix optical with harddrives how come it all seems to be working and why should I not mix them? Surely the old DVD ROM being a disk reader would have been an optical drive.
Would there be a reason to put both CD writer and DVD writer on the same cable and should it be a 40 way or 80 way for best results?
Probably got more questions when I get some answers to these, sorry.
Any help appreciated.
I have fitted several drives and even built a PC in the past but need some advice. I am a little rusty so forgive anything I get wrong and please correct me.
In my PC it has two IDE connections on the motherboard both used, IDE1 has my HD on it and a DVD ROM on it as slave. The cable is the fine ribbon kind, I believe it is an 80 way ribbon as oposed to a 40. IDE2 has a CD writer on it set as master and the cable is bigger gauge ie I think that one is 40 way.
Now I have replaced the DVD ROM with the new DVD writer mentioned at the top of my post and set it as slave, but someone mentioned to me in a previous posting that you should not mix optical drives with harddrives on the same cable but it has always been that the DVD ROM was on the same 80 way cable as the HD and it seemed to work fine.
I have just tried the new DVD writer with a bought music CD and it works fine.
So now the questions.
If one IDE can take an 80 way cable would it probably follow that both could?
What would be the benefit if I changed the 40 way one for an 80 way one?
Would the CD writer that has been in this PC since 2002 when I bought the PC be ok with an 80 way cable?
If I should not mix optical with harddrives how come it all seems to be working and why should I not mix them? Surely the old DVD ROM being a disk reader would have been an optical drive.
Would there be a reason to put both CD writer and DVD writer on the same cable and should it be a 40 way or 80 way for best results?
Probably got more questions when I get some answers to these, sorry.
Any help appreciated.