Help..Burning Issue (Hardware)

[ron spencer]

Ok....have 2 burners in 5.25 bays...both are top two positions on ide cable...all cable select on xp pro...all perfect burns...now I got for free one of those 5.25" rack adapters so I just hot swap hard drives...I put this into the stop slot where one burner was (top spot on IDE cable, still cable select)....when I put the HD in this mobile rack all burns were aweful...buffer issues and slow burns.

So I pull the HD out (power off of course; not a real hot swap) and reboot...all is ok....why does this occur with the HD plugged in as described? Is there an issue with having a hard drive first on the IDE cable? Only thing I can think of is that the first plug on the cable defines that unit as master or something.....any insight here? the hard drive pluged in anywhere else is fine.

[dani82]

a little hard to follow, but i going to try (this should be in the hardware forum), HD & CD should not be on the same IDE cable (performance issues i think)

"cable select" are suppose to be for HD only (i think), especially when sharing a cable with an CD

advise???

IDE1 for HDs

IDE2 for CDs

[ppera2]

Problem is certainly not that HD and burner are on same cable, or HD is master. There is probably some incompability between 2 device or rack isn't perfect.
I used burner so couple times and it worked well, however it's better to have burner as master on secondary IDE line.