Re: Pioneer DVD 116
Up to more hardware upgrades, eh?! Nice. I have that same DVD drive. It's a pretty good one but make sure you have sufficient cooling because that DVD drive tends to run hot. I would have to agree with GodMonstr on who is the Master and who is the Slave. That is how I have my current configuration on my computer. IBM 60 GB HD = Primary Master, Pioneer DVD 116 = Primary Slave, Plextor 16X burner = Secondary Master.
Also, for some reason I tried to enable DMA on both drives when they were on the same IDE chain and only one would want to work with DMA and vice versa. So, I swapped the Pioneer to go onto the primary slave slot and sure enough...things worked out. Make sure to enable DMA for both drives. Besides, if you're doing CD to CD copying you'll get better performance if each CD drive was on its own IDE chain. This may not apply to you if you're going to use some ATA Controller or RAID option.
The reason I touched upon this is because from my understanding only one device can request information over a single chain at a time. Somebody can correct me if I'm wrong here. So, by having both CD drives on the same chain, each drive would have to wait it's turn to request info over the same chain.
Enough blabbering...hope that helped out some.
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