allation Installing your optical drives is an easy process that requires a bit of attention to detail.

Here’s an easy-to-follow-installation guide:

Gather up all your drives. Many cases use removable drive rails or cages to house drives. Use the
included screws to attach your drives to the rails or cage, and slide them into the case. For
externally accessible drives such as a DVD recorder, you can save time by installing one drive rail
and sliding the drive in for a test fitting to make sure that its front is flush with the case. When
the drives are installed, connect power and data cables to each one. Parallel ATA drives use wide,
flat data cables that can be installed only in the correct way.
1. First, if your PC is running, shut it down and turn off the power switch.
2. Next, remove the power cord just in case - it’s an important safety measure.
3. Now find and remove the screws holding the case together.
4. Next, remove the case cover or panel from your PC.
5. Find the 5.25-inch external drive cover. That’s where the drive will be installed. Remove the

cover.
6. 6. Before sliding the drive into the drive bay, use the jumpers to set the drive to be either a
master or slave. If the drive will reside on its own IDE cable, select the master setting. If
the drive will be added to an existing IDE cable, choose slave.

7. Note: if your drive bay requires slide rails, attach the drive rails onto the sides of the

drives.
 8. Next, Slide the drive into the drive bay.

9. If the case does not use drive rails, attach the

drive to the bay using screws.

10. Attach the CD-Audio cable to the connector on the drive

11Attach the other end of the CD-Audio cable to the motherboard or audio card
12.Next, plug the IDE cable into the motherboard, if one isn’t already in place.

13.Plug the drive connector of the IDE cable into the drive.
14.Attach the 4-pin power adapter in the drive.

To remove the drivers go to Device Manager » System » ATA/ATAPI Controllers. Here you should see
Ultra ATA storage controllers. Right click and select update drivers » Select install hardware from a list or
specific location » next » Don't search I will choose the drivers to install » next » You should see
"Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE controller". Select and click next. You may need a reboot or you can
right click on My Computer in Device manager and scan for hardware changes.
Also check BIOS settings under SATA drivers. There should be an entry for Primary IDE channel -
Slave. Make sure this is enabled or your drive will only operate at very slow speed.

I need to adjust the jumper settings

on the drives, which were both set to master. I changed them both to CSEL.
Now Vista reports that I have 3 DVD drives. Now Vista reports that I have 3 DVD drives. Trying to
understand what the
jumpers should be is getting me nowhere since all the documentation I have
found refers to having a DVD daisy-chained off the hard disk ATA cable and
nothing about my configuration with hard disks on SATA and only two DVD
daisy-chained on IDE. Here are my questions:

1) What should my DVD jumpers be set at? master/slave or csel/csel or

master/csel?
even with Jumpers set right. With all the jumpers set to the same, it's
blowing your BIOS's Mind, that's why it now thinks you have 3 Drives. It's
trying to figure out why there's 2 set up as slave 3rd Drive and is assuming
you have the first (Master) Hooked up somewhere else.

The original NEC DVD-Rw should be set as master. Your new

one should be set as slave. I just installed a additional player
and this setup worked fine
Jumper settings for 1 hard drive and 2 CD/DVD drives
NOTE: When using one Western Digital hard drive on one cable, it may need to be set to "Single".
See hard drive documentation for details.
NOTE: If Master (MA) is selected on the first device, then the second device on the same cable must
be set to Slave (SL). If Cable Select (CS) is used on the first device, then the 2nd device on
the same cable must also use CS.
• Set the hard disk jumper as Cable Select or Single. Connect the drive using the Master
connector on the primary IDE cable.(OUR GATEWAY HAS A SATA CONNTECTION FOR
THE HARD-DRIVE)
• Set the first CD/DVD drive jumper to Master (alternatively, Cable Select can be used if you set
the 2nd CD/DVD drive selection to Cable Select). Connect the drive using the Master connector
on the secondary IDE cable.
• Set the second CD/DVD drive jumper to Slave (use Cable Select if Cable Select was used on
the 1st CD/DVD drive). Connect the drive using the Slave connector on the secondary IDE
cable.

2SATA connectors 1 through 4 for hard drives

Adding an Extra Drive to an Older PC

One Cable - Two Drives/ Defining the Master and Slave Relationship
Unfortunately, this process often requires a bit more technology than merely plugging in. Older PCs
use parallel ATA technology - 2 drives share one cable (known as a channel, and most PCs come with
at least two IDE channels for a maximum of 4 drives. Setting a jumper designates each drive as either a
master or a slave, which permits a single cable to connect two drives to one IDE channel. The jumper
settings for each designation are usually labeled on the drive itself. A few simple rules should guide
your configuration choices. If possible, each drive should sit on its own IDE channel configured as a
master drive.
If you have two drives on one channel always make the faster drive the master drive. For example,
suppose that you wanted to add a second hard drive and a DVD burner to a PC equipped with one hard
drive and one CD-RW drive. IN that case, you would want to set the new, faster hard drive as master on
the primary IDE channel.
Your older hard drive should be the slave drive on the primary channel, with the two optical drives as
master and slave on the secondary channel.
id you try connecting the units on separate channels using two ribbon cables?
Try the following configuration, since you have two IDE channels on the motherboard

Channel 1
- burner or OR CD drive as master, and IDE hard drive as a slave. If you do not
have and IDE drive, just connect the CD unit or the burner;

Channel 2

- second CD unit/burner as master or slave. I would try it in a master

configuration first, and then as a slave if you have startup problems
or it doesn't quite work properly.
id you try connecting the units on separate channels using two ribbon cables?
Try the following configuration, since you have two IDE channels on the motherboard

Channel 1
- burner or OR CD drive as master. If you do not
have and IDE drive, just connect the CD unit or the burner;

Channel 2

- second CD unit/burner as master or slave. I would try it in a master

configuration first, and then as a slave if you have startup problems
or it doesn't quite work properly.

one device can be active on an ide cable at one time. So if you're reading and writing, you'll be
engaging buffer underrun protection of your burner quite frequently, depending on the burning
application you're using (and the method, such as, burning on the fly). This was a very common
problem when older cd-r burners didn't have buffer underrun protection and had both the reader and
writer sharing the same ide channel.

By its very nature, each IDE/ATA channel can only deal with one request, to one device, at a time. You
cannot even begin a second request, even to a different drive, until the first request is completed. This
means that if you put two devices on the same channel, they must share it. In practical terms, this
means that any time one device is in use, the other must remain silent.

In contrast, two disks on two different IDE/ATA channels can process requests simultaneously on most
motherboards. The bottom line is that the best way to configure multiple devices is to make each of
them a single drive on its own channel, if this is possible. (This restriction is one major disadvantage of
IDE compared to SCSI). An add-in controller like the Promise "Ultra" series is a cheap way of adding
extra IDE/ATA channels to a modern PC."

poor quality burns (due to engaging buffer underrun protection on your burners); burning on the fly is
especially horrible if you share source and destination drives on the same ide channel
Chances are you are not burning on the fly. Clonedvd2, Shrink, etc., write to the hard drive first (unless
you choose "write existing data" in Clonedvd2--but most people don't do this)--and then from the hard
drive to your burner. When you're burning on the fly, you don't write everything to the hard drive first.
If you're not burning on the fly, this issue is unlikely to affect you--much.

I am using both DVD drives on the same IDE ribbon

That's only an issue if you're using both drives at the exact same time.

OPTICAL DISK DRIVES

Many synonyms and near-synonyms for ATA exist, including abbreviations such as IDE (Integrated
Drive Electronics{An early version of the specification was conceived by Western Digital in 1986;
known as Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) due to the drive controller on the drive itself as opposed
to a separate controller connected to the motherboard.}) and ATAPI (Advanced Technology
Attachment Packet Interface). Also, with the market introduction of Serial ATA in 2003, the original
ATA was retroactively renamed Parallel ATA (PATA).

Parallel ATA standards allow cable lengths up to only 18 inches (46 centimeters) although cables up to
36 inches (91 cm) can be readily purchased. Because of this length limit, the technology normally
appears as an internal computer storage interface. It provides the most common and the least expensive
interface for this application.

Multiple devices on a cable

If two devices attach to a single cable, one is commonly referred to as a master and the other as a slave.
The master drive generally appears first when the computer's BIOS and/or operating system
enumerates available drives. On old BIOSes (486 era and older), the drives are often referred to by the
BIOS as "C" for the master and "D" for the slave following the way DOS would refer to the active
primary partitions on each.
If there is a single device on a cable, it should be configured as master. However, some hard drives
have a special setting called single for this configuration (Western Digital, in particular). Also,
depending on the hardware and software available, a single drive on a cable can work reliably even
though configured as the slave drive (this configuration is most often seen when a CD ROM has a
channel to itself)
Master and slave clarification
Although they are in extremely common use, the terms master and slave do not actually appear in
current versions of the ATA specifications. The two devices are correctly referred to as device 0
(master) and device 1 (slave), respectively.

"Slowest speed"
It is a common misconception that, if two devices of different speed capabilities are on the same cable,
both devices' data transfers will be constrained to the speed of the slower device.
For all modern ATA host adapters this is not true, as modern ATA host adapters support independent
device timing. This allows each device on the cable to transfer data at its own best speed
PATA(Parallel ATA ) ribbon cables connect one motherboard socket to up to two hard drives, carry
either 40- or 80-conductor wires, and are limited to 45 cm (18 in) in length by the PATA specification
(however, cables up to 90 cm (36 in) are readily available).

Power
The SATA standard also specifies a new power connector. Like the Pin # Function
data cable, it is wafer-based, but its wider 15-pin shape prevents 1–3 3.3V
accidental misidentification and forced insertion of the wrong
4–6 Ground
connector type. Native SATA devices favor the SATA power-
connector over the old four-pin Molex connector 7–9 5V
10 Ground
Staggered spinup
11
(in supporting drives)
12 Ground
13–15 12V
(found on all PATA equipment), although some SATA drives retain
older 4-pin Molex. A 15-pin Serial ATA power connector.

There are more pins than the traditional connector for several reasons:
• A third voltage is supplied – 3.3 V – in addition to the traditional 5 V, and 12 V.
• Each voltage is supplied by three pins ganged together – because the small pins by themselves
cannot supply sufficient current for some devices. (Each pin should be able to provide 1.5 A.)
• For each of the three voltages, one of the three pins is used for hotplugging.
• Ground is provided by five pins ganged together.
• Pin 11 is used in newer drives for staggered spinup.
Adaptors are available to convert a 4-pin Molex connector to a SATA power connector. However,
because the 4-pin Molex connectors do not provide 3.3 V power, these adapters provide only 5 V and
12 V power and leave the 3.3 V lines unconnected. This precludes the use of such adapters with drives
that require 3.3 V power. Understanding this, drive manufacturers have largely left the 3.3 V power
lines unused. However, without 3.3 V power, the SATA device may not be able to implement
hotplugging as mentioned in the previous paragraph.
SATA and PATA
At the device level, SATA and PATA devices are completely incompatible—
they cannot be interconnected. At the application level, SATA devices are
specified to look and act like PATA devices
Buy a PCI or PCIE SATA adapter card. Just plug that into an empty slot, & your SATA device will plug
into that. You will also need a power adapter to go from the old style to the new style. Those are
available everywhere for a dollar or so.

There are 2 possible reasons for the slow burning:-

1. DMA is not enabled for the burner but that shouldn't slow it down that much for CD burning,
2. Crap media.