Thread: DVD ReWriter Information
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Old 07-04-2005, 22:53   #10
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Re: DVD ReWriter Information
The slowdown rule doesn't always apply... I've run an ATA/66 HD (master), with an old CD-RW (PIO4 + non-ultra DMA), with no loss of speed, With a DVD writer and Combo on the other channel, I deliberately paired the slowest writer with the HD, for the best chance of a "same channel" source and destination write (especially as the only reason I kept it, was a quirky player that only accepts some old media written slowly - maybe the media would work the same in another drive, but I didn't want to break the combination up).

If you have to share with the HD, I'd always go for the reader, or the slowest writer.

PS. Make sure you get the master/slave combination right, or it will lock up at boot...
A single drive should always be Master, though sometimes it will work (even though it shouldn't) as a slave
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