got a new cd-rw and am a little confused

[hotdiggitydog]

Got a rewriter for xmas and am confused as to IDE and EIDE. are these different or what? the ports on the motherboard say IDE, the directions call for EIDE in requirements, I thought that the was only EIDE and SCSI. Is this RW I got gonna work in my PC or not?????

[bjay125]

Unless your motherboard is 3+ years old, you can rest assured that you do indeed have EIDE channels.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

I just thought that I should mention this...

When you get it installed, the CD-RW drive will show up in your Control Panel as a SCSI device... Don't worry, this is normal. I haven't quite figured out why, but IDE, EIDE, USB, etc.... CD-RW drives have to have software that emulates a SCSI device. Er, sumthin' like that. Not too sure.

Anyways, my USB CD-RW drive shows up in my CP as a SCSI device, too. No prob.

[DEckaRD]

the controller has to support E-IDE...

system specs? When did you buy the computer?

[bjay125]

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I just thought that I should mention this...

When you get it installed, the CD-RW drive will show up in your Control Panel as a SCSI device... Don't worry, this is normal.

Hmmm... that's strange. My IDE burner (Plextor) always showed up as a normal CD/DVD drive in Win98SE, WinMe, and Win2k. My previous burner (Memorex) did also. Perhaps it's cuz yours is USB?? I would venture to say that an IDE burner showing up as a SCSI device is abnormal.

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Mine also shows up as a USB device, but there's another device (SCSI device) listed in the CP... The SCSI device lists my CD-RW drive, too. My sister's boyfriend (he worked for the Systems Departments of a couple local ******s for several years) told me something to the effect of what I posted above. Again, I'm not too sure...

[DEckaRD]

Windows doesn't "know" CD writers. It uses them as if they were normal CD drives. Only the burner software recognizes them as burners.

[Rx]

I don't know what happened, but while I was in the process of writing a new audio CD, the process canceled and it gave me an error saying, "Command retry failed." Is there anything that I may be doing wrong? Any software interfering? The troubleshooting manual suggests that I check for any faulty or broken wires, but they're perfectly fine. (They were the same wires I used on my old CD-ROM drive, I simply replaced it with the CD-RW and set it to master) I'm going to go out and buy some CD-R discs later on, and I'll see if this was only a one-time problem..

[hotdiggitydog]

everything went in ok and burned a 12 track mix without a hitch, the only thing now is to find out were the jumper goes on the old cd-rom to slave and find out if it needs to have a connection to the sound card if the RW is the master. Any ideas or suggestions will be appreciated....

[DEckaRD]

The jumper settings should be explained in the manual.
Your CD-Rom needs a connection to your Soundcard if you want to play Audio CDs with it. Winamp's standard CDDA plug-in and the Windows CD player require this.
If you use the CD Reader plug-in or if you want to play your audio CDs only with the new CD drive you don't need it (but of course the new drive needs to be connected).

[hotdiggitydog]

So if I understand this correctly, I don't need the old cd-rom plugged into the SC if all I am doing with it is reading data. The new RW will (or I hope) perform all the functions the old one used to.... Correct?

[DEckaRD]

Yes.

[spanky]

As far as you should be concerned CD burners should be installed as normal CD-ROM drives with ONE exception - be sure to disable DMA. =)

[chico71183]

so whats the deal with DMA anyways? i had to reformat my hard drive and couldn't figure what was wrong with my burner til i disabled dma...what is it? and why does it have to be disabled? just wondering...

[hotdiggitydog]

internal hardware communication i believe, similar to irq which stands for interupt request lines dma is direct memory access. communication routes, I have not had to do anything with this as of yet. My rw seems to be functioning ok....

[lunarboy1]

Originally posted by sgtfuzzbubble99
I just thought that I should mention this...

When you get it installed, the CD-RW drive will show up in your Control Panel as a SCSI device... Don't worry, this is normal. I haven't quite figured out why, but IDE, EIDE, USB, etc.... CD-RW drives have to have software that emulates a SCSI device. Er, sumthin' like that. Not too sure.

Anyways, my USB CD-RW drive shows up in my CP as a SCSI device, too. No prob.

I believe that it appears as an SCSI because it needs to write information. I dunno. maybe. it's a guess. I should just shut up. bye

[lunarboy1]

my RW works like a charm.. It came installed on the computer BTW, Climax looks great on an 866 PIII with a 32mb ATI Radeon Vid card and 19 inch monitor

[Somebody]

I love my little gay SCSI Yamaha drive :P

[sgtfuzzbubble011]

Mine's a Pacific Digital. I haven't really given it a run for its money, yet. I've written a rewritable cd just to test it, and that seemed to work fine...

I still haven't heard back from the tech support guys, though. It's still doin' that wierd stuff.......

[Predatorsfan2000]

"So if I understand this correctly, I don't need the old cd-rom plugged into the SC if all I am doing with it is reading data. The new RW will (or I hope) perform all the functions the old one used to.... Correct?"


If you have WinME you don't even need to hook it to the Sound Card. It supports digitally reading the audio through the IDE cables. It works in Winamp too. It also accesses the drive more though(a downside to me) but it works on my CDRW drive. I think you have to enable it in the Control Panel's System options.