Re: Conflict between ide and usb?

John Coppens
2007-03-17T13:49:34Z

On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 16:34:15 -0400
lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Lennart Sorensen) wrote:

> I also have noticed that many fast
> (16x) DVD writers must have an 80 wire cable or they won't work
> correctly and do nasty things to the system.

That was the problem! This is the first machine I bought assembled,
and I hadn't noticed that the CD/DVD cables were the old 40 wire
cables. I do hope this is the last of the problems.

Thanks guys! Changed the cable, and speed went up from 3.3 to 19MB/s
(probably limited by the older harddrive too)... Thas was spectacular!
Of course, now DMA didn't switch off either.

Cheers,
John