Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/14/08:24:25
Patrick Moran wrote on Tue, 13 Feb 2001:
>First off, I would like to say this: IDE sucks.
[issuing compatbility hassels with IDE and EIDE]
Indeed, youre right.
I usally tried to buy _mainstream_ hardware.
Because of wide spreading it was tested _best_ .
So if I didnt hear bad things about chances are thats not too bad.
Of course that philosophy didnt work well :-)
Anyway, this is the system I do have. I have to fight with.
>CDROM writes slow the system way way down
>when they are burning a CD.
Ok, thats why I wouldnt touch my system burning a CD.
But writing CD happens (very) seldom, so I dont see a problem.
>So before I would blame it on NWCDEX, install MSCDEX and
>rem out NWCDEX, then play with the drives until you can
>find a configuration that will work.
>>On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 Utz Zarwell wrote:
>>Using MSCDEX its all ok.
I normally used NWCDEX.
At first sight I blamed the cd players not doing
their job with 2nd CD-drive.
(Obviously its a hard job regarding all above mentioned
incompatibilities and not well documented APIs)
Then I substituted NWCDEX with MSCDEX and it worked.
Alright, thats no sure proof. But with all the testing,
it seems very likely to me that NWCDEX makes the difference.
Thats why I would like to hear if anyone else having
two CD drives is able to play audio cds or not.
>Personally I don't see why you would need to put it
>with the fast hard drive. They are slow to begin with.
Because it reads with 24x max.
>I believe they only have 1mbs maximum burn rate anyway.
>That is the same as a 2.88 floppy drive.
>I know that you can use them through a USB port and not
>lose any speed and that has a maximum of 1mbs or 1.5mbs
>for burning. For playback you could lose some speed,
>depending on the playback speed of the drive. Since you
>got an IDE drive, I am not aware of any IDE adapters for
>USB like there is for SCSI.
SCSI, USB, floppy? Sorry I cannot follow.
>You may wind up just having to remove the other CDROM drive.
This means you advise to remove a CDROM drive ??
>It may be purely a hardware problem.
Less likely. Despite of the IDE issue there is more evidence
beeing a API or _protocoll_ problem. At which level remains open...
>Someone mentioned something about using the secondary controller
>for IDE drives and the Primary for EIDE drives.
I mentioned to put the fast HDD and the CDRW to the onboard EIDE
controller which is _first_ in system and to cable the slow HDD
and the CDROM to the on board IDE channel.
I do not see alternatives.
I am aware that usage of HDD and CDRW at the same cable is often
said to be a risk. (Not for SCSI.) But bandwith together with
hardware caches IMHO should give lower risk.
All the best,
Utz
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