Replacing CD Drive with DVD drive

[Karl Larsen]

On 05/12/2010 07:56 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 13/05/10 11:41, Keith Clark wrote:
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>> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 11:37 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
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>> DVD drive is master and HD is slave on the same cable.
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> No - switch these around. The HD should "control" the CD/DVD not the
> other way 'round. There is a reason for calling them Master and Slave
> :-) . (The DMA of the HD is a lot faster than the CD/DVD and you want
> the faster unit to be Master.)
>
> But, hold on, you are now saying that they are Master and Slave whereas
> before you were saying that the DVD was configured for Cable Select.
>
> If BOTH HD and DVD are configured as Cable Select, then the one which is
> connected at the END of the cable is the Master and the one connected to
> the middle of the cable is the Slave.
>
> BC
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         All you say BC is correct. But I asked several days ago to look 
and report what BIOS has as a hard drive and a DVD/CD drive.

     Please please look and tell us what BIOS says you have. Important :-)

73 Karl


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