302468

October 25th, 2000 09:21 PM

Easily, as long as you only have 1 hard drive.

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302467

is it possible to have a cd-rw, dvd rom, and a 50 speed cd rom in 1 PC

October 25th, 2000 09:21 PM

My cd-rw sucks. I wana get a 50 speed Cd-rom Can i have all 3??? They won't be running at the same time of course

302469

October 25th, 2000 09:23 PM

There are 4 ide channels.
Regular (non-SCSI, or external) cd-rom's, and hard drives use 1 of them.
So you could have any combination, as long as you don't have more than 4.

Unless of coarse if you have RAID. Then you can have 8...I think.

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[AxE]Dolby: your friendly neighborhood SpiderMan.

302470

October 25th, 2000 09:25 PM

It's possible... but I suggest running just a DVD ROM and a CDRW. No reason to have all three. The DVD ROM is fast enough to use as your primary CD ROM drive.

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302471

October 25th, 2000 09:29 PM

DVD drive isnt faster than a 50x though, most dvd's operate with a 24x

302472

October 25th, 2000 09:32 PM

a burner(cdrw) and a DVD are all you need.. normal cd-roms are becoming outdated with newer technology. BTW tech freaks did you hear any current news about UDTV or that newer DVD format? just curious, I haven't heard about them for a while now.


If you must have all three, go for SCSI(if possible) you could fit all three on one scsi channel.

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302473

October 25th, 2000 09:36 PM

Why do you need anything faster than 24x anyway? Programs may install a few seconds faster, big deal.

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302474

October 25th, 2000 09:47 PM

BTW - Dolby... RAID has nothing to do with the number of drives your PC can support. RAID takes an array of physical disks and creates one logical drive.

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302475

October 25th, 2000 10:33 PM

yeah, but MAKE SURE you dont have the 50x on the same cable as the CDRW, or it'll really degfrade performance when copying a CD from the 50x to the CDRW

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302476

October 25th, 2000 11:55 PM

I'll just copy from the DVD to cd-rw then