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Hi,Rickster, This is a post I found, Thanks malum
Senior Member
26 Nov 2003 7:41 AM
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OK
I have a little more time now, so here goes
On the back of the drive CD or HD are jumpers (metal sleeves that bridge two pins)
There are three positions to have the jumpers in
Master (MA)
Slave (SL)
Cable select (CS) don?t use this option
If you have two devices on one IDE cable then one must be set to master and one to slave if they are both set to one or the other the neither will work.
On the top face of the drive should be a little diagram telling you where to put the jumper for each setting.
Set your OS hard drive to Master on IDE one.
If you have another HD put it on IDE two as slave.
If you are going to rip to the second HD with the DVD drive then put the DVD on IDE one as slave.
If you also have a CR-RW put it on IDE two as master.
If you have UDMA devices (which your 106 is) you need 80 strand IDE cables to get the most of it.
Your hard drive may well be UDMA as well so you need two 80 strand cables with two connectors on each.
If you have a full sized tower then you probably need extra long ones
Some drives are fussy about which connector they go on (end or middle) so if it doesn?t work and you know you have the jumpers set right then change the drives to the opposite connectors.
Now all these devices need to be told to use DMA mode if they can
This is done in the device manager (from the control panel) open the device manager and go into the IDE channels and look at the advanced settings and set the all to DMA if available. If they are already set to that and yet they say that they are transferring in PIO mode at the moment then you may have to go into the BIOS and change some settings to get them into DMA mode (not going into that here)
CORDOVA
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27 Nov 2003 10:07 PM
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malum, koola, nobbi1977, paulchu, Needakip thank you ALL for your patience and very helpful advice.
I switched both my drives to DMA and went out and bought Ritek brand 4x dvd r and now I am able to copy whole dvd's using Nero 6 (get yours free from Kazaa) in 6 minutes or less.
Once again thank you truly for helping a stranger!
P.S.-Does anyone know the best software for dvd movie backups.
((This is a great post for Dell owners by malum,
Good Luck!
Frank))
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 28. November 2003 @ 09:25
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