copying on the fly

[bersjam]

When trying to copy "on the fly" my system warned me about the fact that both my source and destination cd are on the same IDE-bus.
The shop told me that this configuration is the best one but this means I'm not able to copy on the fly with any program I own(Nero, Cdrwin and Clonecd).
What should I do: make use of another program like the shop told me or put the writer and the other cd on different IDE-busses?

[Wayniac]

The shop was right; it is the best way to connect your pc - for the shop! You see, to cut costs down they've connected both your cd-rom and your writer to the same cable, instead of connecting them the CORRECT way using TWO cables..

Connect your system as follows:

Primary IDE port: master = hard-drive (C:\)
slave = not used or additional hard-drive

secondary IDE port: master = cd-rom
slave = writer

Once connected you need to enter you BIOS setup and auto-detect your drives again. Make sure the correct DMA modes are used for each drive - inclusding your hard-drive, ie my Traxdata writer is a mode 4 device.

Also, you'll need to ##### that DMA is enabled for all your drives (right-click My Computer icon, then click on the Device Manager tab). The reason you'll need to re-enable the DMA feature is because some older cd-roms don't support DMA, but new one's have no problem. Also diable the auto-insertion notification, as this can interfere with your copying.

Finally, CloneCD is good at doing 100% copies (even some protected stuff), but you need compatible drives to do it justice (you can always install it and look in the help file, under Hardware requirements).

Hope this helps ya out. Bye.