Picked one of these up (OEM) and am having a good time with it so far. I just have a few questions for the more tech savvy users:
1.) Under Win2k, I find that the CPU usage spikes up to almost 100% between each track when writing an audio CD. Like for a second, then drops down to the normal 3-4%. Is this normal? Anything I should be worried about? I've put on the newest (non-beta) 4 in 1's, and got the DMA working properly on it.
2.) Along the same lines, I'm guessing it's important to make sure these things are cabled properly. My set up right now is a 20 gig Quantum on the Primary Master, a 10 gig Maxtor as Primary Slave, the Burner as Secondary Master and the CD-ROM drive as Secondary Slave. I find that if I try to copy an audio CD to CD, it makes a coaster almost everytime. Gets to about the fifth track and locks up. Do I need to swap the CD-ROM to the Primary slave (since I was getting rid of the 10 gig anyways and giving it to a friend)? I know it's probably an easy question. I'm rather experienced with putting systems together (I've been doing so for the last eight years) but you always run into things you are not accustomed to.
Thanks for the help in advance!
--Christopher