At 12:00 AM 7/20/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Don" <[log in to unmask]>
>
> > It would be greatly appreciated if someone could advise me
> on how to adopt
> > the suggestion in this message received when I attempt to
> copy a cd
> > ``It looks like both your source and your destination drive
> are connected
>to
> > the same ide bus. We would strongly recommend to connect
> your source and
> > your destination drive to different ide buses.'' I'm running
> a Presario
> > 5827, 500 mhz, 96 mb, Windows se with an internal cd-rw.
> > Thanks in advance for your help and have a nice day.
> >
>
>Most newer computers have a primary and secondary channel to
>allow for up
>to four (4) ide/eide devices.  My interpretation of (guess at?)
>the meaning
>of
>this message is that the CD-RW is on the same IDE channel as
>the hard disk.
>It is usually better to position the jumper on the CD-RW to
>make it a slave
>(most
>housings are marked to facilitate this), and attach its data
>cable to the
>secondary IDE channel connection on the motherboard.

If the CD-RW is on the same channel as the hard drive, it most
likely is already set as a SLAVE. If you move it to the second
channel, by itself, you must set it as MASTER. However, the
message you are getting may mean something else. Do you have a
CDROM reader, in addition to the CD-RW? If so, are they on the
same channel (same cable)?
In any event, if your CD-RW has the Burn-Proof feature, you can
ignore the message. Just make sure that Burn-Proof is enabled in
your burning software.
Hope this helps.

Joab

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