Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 17:14:49 Rohan McLeod wrote:
Russell that is very generous of you; I might try Trent's suggestion of coupling a R/W SATA burner to a SATA HD. There is no connection between the burner and the HDD. In the unlikely event that you have a motherboard which supports it then you can run an IDE disk and a SATA DVD-RW drive without necessarily having any problems.
thanks Russell I shall accept that as authoritative ie mixing SATA and IDE has no intrinsic problems ?
The common case of a SATA disk and IDE DVD-RW drive (the default configuration for desktop PCs shipped ~3-5 years ago) also won't necessarily have any problems.
CD/DVD writers are difficult, some just don't work for no particular reason.
Now that could be relevant to my problem ie Box I CD/DVD had a problem; Box II CD/DVD had no problem ?
For my own use I don't bother too much about it, I always have 3+ PCs capable of doing such things and if one doesn't successfully burn CDs then I just transfer the ISO image to another.
Which raises the issue is burning an ISO image an identical problem to burning a selection of mp3 sound files; to what will become an audio CD ? Again thanks for the offer and thoughts on the issue; the ComputerBank accessories shop is just round the corner; so I'll probably go with that regards Rohan Mcleod