On Thu, 21 Aug 2014 23:02:32 Rohan McLeod wrote:
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 ?
If you have an IDE HDD and an IDE DVD-RW on the same cable then there is potential for interference as there always is when one cable has multiple devices. Other than that, kernel bugs (which while possible aren't likely in this regard), and motherboard hardware bugs there shouldn't be any issue.
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 ?
Yes.
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 ?
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