HELP! Copying CD with drives on same IDE

[HELLBRINGER 0]

Using Nero and HP CD Writing software to try and copy CDs on my friends system.

 

An I/O Magic 52X CD-ROM and an HP 8X CD Drive. Nero is informing me that difficulties may arrise in attempting to copy a CD and write it at the same time on the fly with the drivers on the same IDE port. And those problems did arise.

 

Would putting a CD-ROM on Primary IDE and the CD Writer on Secondary IDE ports fix this?

 

I don't want to attempt it unless I know his system is a mess to get into and it is not even here and I don't want him to bring it over for me to try if it is not going to work.

 

Thanks!

[Cynan 0]

Yes it would, providing there the only thing on each of the two chains. You see IDE can't do simultaneous read and writes (unlike SCSI), so when one device is reading, thats it, nothing else can read or write.

 

So if you have your source drive is being read from, and then something else accesses say a HD on the same chain, ut oh... problem.

 

Nero does have a buffer though, and most writers do now too, so you should beable to get away with it.

[clutch 1]

Nero wont do it in NT/2K for me either (though it worked in Win98SE on the same machine), but Adaptec EZ CD creator works on the fly. Generally, if I am limited to just 2 IDE channels and I have a CD-ROM and CD-R/RW in the same box I will put the CD-ROM on the same chain as the HD. I will usually install stuff from the CD-R/RW since the read speeds are about the same, and this allows for on the fly copying in pretty much anything.

[HELLBRINGER 0]

Ok I'll do that. Kinda sucks though. Oh well.