If I understand you, you first used one connector on the ribbon, and it did 
not work.  Then you used the other connector and it did work, right?

It sounds to me like you have a bad IDE ribbon.

Dean Kukral

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Milt deReyna" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] DVD Burner Problems


OK, I have isolated the bug, further.  I have removed the slave 200 Gig hard 
drive, (it was just extra storage) a USB 2.0 PCI card, and the scanner to 
reduce psu overload.  I have also unhooked the master dvd burner, further 
reducing power usage.

I then hooked up the slave dvd burner as a master (cable select jumper) and 
fired up the computer.  My first attempt to back up a movie with dvd shrink,
the preview box showed the jerking around that I've previously described,
and the timer indicated that it would take 1 hr. 10 min. to back-up,
preparatory to burning.

I then shut down and rehooked up the same burner, using only the slave
connector on the ribbon cable.  That was the only change I made.  I re-tried
dvd shrink, and this time the video screen showed smooth and rapid back-up,
and the timer indicated that the movie would back-up in 15 minutes.

Anybody know what the heck that means?  As a pure wild guess, does that mean
that the area of the cpu that handles the master traffic from the secondary
IDE interface is going bad?  (Hoping I used correct terminology there.)

 

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