Re: cdrw and cdrom: do ide and master/slave matter?
Greetings,
The cd-r can be on any drive, master or slave. Mine is set up as following:
cdrom: /dev/hdc (secondary master)
cdr: /dev/hdd ( secondary slave)
and I've had no problems. I'm not sure about whether lite-on will work or
not. My drive was not listed on the cd-r but it works, so there could be a
good chance that it will work.
-greg murphy
On Tuesday 12 March 2002 22:20, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> I have a cdrom and plan to keep it but also add a cd burner. I had thought
> that i remembered being told that the cd burner had to be the master on an
> ide, but now can't find any documentation for that. Both the cdrom and cdrw
> are ide/atapi so I am using scsi emulation and have also compiled with
> scsi, scsi cdrom and generic scsi. the person installing wants to install
> the cdrom on one drive and the cdrw on the other as he feels this may make
> transfers when copying a bit faster. I also have two hard disks, though one
> of them used to be DOS and, now that i have made a dos partition on my main
> drive, is only being used to store some backups at present. This means that
> I would probably put the cdrom on hdb and the cdrw on hdc. Is there any
> reason not to do this?
> Also, the person installing this can get the best price for me on a lite-on
> cdrw, though he could also get a creative. when I looked at the cdrw-howto,
> lite-on wasn't listed, but I realize this doesn't mean it isn't usable.
> Furthe searching brought up the lite-on as useable with the cdrom.c driver.
> Is this a generic driver that is loaded by the kernel and will it be loaded
> with the options i've chosen?
> Has anybody had experience with the lite-on; don't have a model number as
> yet so can't be more specific.
> TIA.
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