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goldchip · 07-04-2005, 18:14

Its dead easy -
Assuming that you have a "standard setup" of the 2 existing cd drives on the secondary channel - one being set as master, and one as slave. And the single h/d is on the primary channel.
Then your only option is to check that the jumper is set to MASTER, and set the new drive's jumper to SLAVE. Windows (all versions) will pick up the new drive, and install the driver needed (its a generic MS driver).
If you have Win XP - then you burn to CD from within Windows - restricted in the type though. Best option is to install Nero or whatever burning application they gave you on CD. Now you're done.

The only caveat of connecting any any of optical drive (CDR/DVDR) on the same channel as the h/d is that you may suffer from performance degradation on the h/d - and also high contention on the same channel when burning.

07-04-2005, 18:14	#7
goldchip Inactive Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 64	Re: DVD ReWriter Information Its dead easy - Assuming that you have a "standard setup" of the 2 existing cd drives on the secondary channel - one being set as master, and one as slave. And the single h/d is on the primary channel. Then your only option is to check that the jumper is set to MASTER, and set the new drive's jumper to SLAVE. Windows (all versions) will pick up the new drive, and install the driver needed (its a generic MS driver). If you have Win XP - then you burn to CD from within Windows - restricted in the type though. Best option is to install Nero or whatever burning application they gave you on CD. Now you're done. The only caveat of connecting any any of optical drive (CDR/DVDR) on the same channel as the h/d is that you may suffer from performance degradation on the h/d - and also high contention on the same channel when burning.