I plan on installing my Pioneer 107D OEM drive today. This is the first time I am installing a DVD burner. I previously had been using a CD-RW. After the physical installation, what exactly should I do? The drive only came by itself and no drivers. Do I need to install any drivers or anything? Also, what settings should I place for the drive's configurations in the device manager? I heard that I should enable DMA. Could someone tell me all the correct settings I should set? Also, after adjusting all the settings, would I be able to flash to the new patched firmware (1.13)? Any other important tips or advice? I already installed DVD Shrink and Encryptor. Sorry for the questions, I just don't want to mess up anywhere, by missing some minor/major details. Thanks!
Quote:Do I need to install any drivers or anything?
No. After you physically install the drive and reboot windows should detect and install it.
Quote:Also, what settings should I place for the drive's configurations in the device manager? I heard that I should enable DMA.
Make sure the jumper on the back of your drive is set to master and have the drive master on the IDE cable. Here's a link to explain DMA and how to enable it:
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Note below applies mostly if you want to use your burner for backing-up DVD movies; it can be also used as a general rule-of-thumb.
It seems to be the most beneficial to have your DVD burner connected to IDE channel other than the one on which you will have a hard drive that will be storing your pre-authored movie (or any other data that will be burned to DVD).
If you have only one (physical) hard drive and one DVD burner that would mean that you might want to make your hard drive a master on primary IDE channel (do not forget to connect the hard drive to the very last connector in the IDE cable) AND make your DVD burner a master on secondary IDE channel (again, do not forget to connect the hard drive to the very last connector in the IDE cable). That will maximize the overall throughput between your hard drive and DVD burner.
If you have more than those two devices the above still applies; additional devices are connected as slaves (and use the connector that sits in the middle of the cable).
I didn't connect the DVD burner as a master. My previous configuration had my regular DVD-ROM drive connected as a Master and my previous CD-RW connected as the slave. I left the DVD-ROM Drive in the same slot as the Master drive and just replaced my CD-RW drive with my new Pioneer DVD burner. So the Pioneer DVD burner is set as slave. Is this okay?
Quote:So the Pioneer DVD burner is set as slave. Is this okay?
No! :) Your burner really needs to be set as master on the IDE chain for optimal performance and to avoid headaches in the future.
Putting your burner on master and having your ROM as slave to it is an ideal configuration. Some may argue that both drives on the same chain won't work for "on the fly" copying, but that type of copying is pointless anyway so set up your burner/master - ROM/slave and go forth with confidence.
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