Technology DVD writer

[Apollyon]

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So, right now, I have a DVD drive and a CD-RW drive in my computer. The DVD is the master. I have a DVD (-) writer I want to install.

The HP software has a utility to say what should be master and slave, but, since there are two drives already installed, it doesn't help.

I've decided that I am going to keep the DVD drive, and replace the CD-RW with the DVD (-) writer.

My question is, does it matter which is master and slave, or does anyone have any recommendations, or is it MB/BIOS dependent, or what?

Dell Dimension 4400, P4 1.7GHz, 768Mb RAM, 80Gb HD, NVidia Ge4 64Mb.

 

[insistence]

I just made the exact switch you're planning (about two months ago) and I just swapped the DVD-RW for the CD-RW. My DVD player is set to master with the writer set to slave. I've had absolutely no probs burning DVD's or CD's. My rig is hand built so I've gotten a lot experience mix different components (since I'm always upgrading my machine). CD-ROMs in general don't seem to have a lot of probs with hardware conflicts just make sure one is set to master and the other to slave. Sounds like you're good to go.

Hope that helps.

 

[Apollyon]

Thanks bud - I'll give it a whirl!