Need help connecting two Asus DVD burners

I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
me a bit of advice.

Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would like
to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial connectors
should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or? Or does it
make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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What's your motherboard?

If you see SATA connectors with different colors, they may be on different
controllers.

For example: I have an Asus P6T Deluxe. It has 6 red SATA connectors that
run off the Intel chipset. It has an additional two orange connectors that
aren't really SATA but are SAS (serial attached SCSI) off of a Marvell
controller. (They're supposed to be back-compatible with SATA. I haven't
tried them.)

I suggest putting the DVD burners on the primary SATA controller. That is
what I've done on my system. (I have 2 SATA hard drives as well, so that 4
of the 6 primary SATA ports are in use. My system has no PATA drives at the
moment.) If you can disable the unused controller in the BIOS settings, it
may save you a significant amount of time at startup, as well as eliminating
the need to install drivers for the third-party controller.

<> wrote in message
news:20090702135540.697$...
> I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
> me a bit of advice.
>
> Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would like
> to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial connectors
> should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or? Or does it
> make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
>
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You are including totally irrelevant information and leaving out ALL of
the important information.

This IS a motherboard question. The burners are irrelevant.

When a motherboard has different color codes for the sata ports, usually
that means that different colors are on different controller chips.
Usually one color is on the main motherboard chipset (Intel or NVidia or
Via or whoever), and other colors are on other controllers (often a
JMicron controller, which may support RAID (for hard drives)). There
are a lot of issues and reasons why one or the other controller (port
color) may be preferable, but it depends on the overall configuration of
the system and how you intend to use the system. It is an impossible
question to answer with the little information that you have provided.


wrote:
> I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
> me a bit of advice.
>
> Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would like
> to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial connectors
> should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or? Or does it
> make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
>

I have a P5K motherboard with 2 ide hard drives and 2 asus dvd burners.
If I put the burners on the primary it won't affect my ide drives? Thank
you.


"Bob Knowlden" <> wrote:
> What's your motherboard?
>
> If you see SATA connectors with different colors, they may be on
> different controllers.
>
> For example: I have an Asus P6T Deluxe. It has 6 red SATA connectors that
> run off the Intel chipset. It has an additional two orange connectors
> that aren't really SATA but are SAS (serial attached SCSI) off of a
> Marvell controller. (They're supposed to be back-compatible with SATA. I
> haven't tried them.)
>
> I suggest putting the DVD burners on the primary SATA controller. That is
> what I've done on my system. (I have 2 SATA hard drives as well, so that
> 4 of the 6 primary SATA ports are in use. My system has no PATA drives at
> the moment.) If you can disable the unused controller in the BIOS
> settings, it may save you a significant amount of time at startup, as
> well as eliminating the need to install drivers for the third-party
> controller.
>
> <> wrote in message
> news:20090702135540.697$...
> > I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
> > me a bit of advice.
> >
> > Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would
> > like to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial
> > connectors should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or?
> > Or does it make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > thank you.
> >
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Motherboard is a P5K with 8gb ram with 2 ide drives and 2 burners.



Barry Watzman <> wrote:
> You are including totally irrelevant information and leaving out ALL of
> the important information.
>
> This IS a motherboard question. The burners are irrelevant.
>
> When a motherboard has different color codes for the sata ports, usually
> that means that different colors are on different controller chips.
> Usually one color is on the main motherboard chipset (Intel or NVidia or
> Via or whoever), and other colors are on other controllers (often a
> JMicron controller, which may support RAID (for hard drives)). There
> are a lot of issues and reasons why one or the other controller (port
> color) may be preferable, but it depends on the overall configuration of
> the system and how you intend to use the system. It is an impossible
> question to answer with the little information that you have provided.
>
> wrote:
> > I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
> > me a bit of advice.
> >
> > Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would
> > like to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial
> > connectors should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or?
> > Or does it make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > thank you.
> >

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wrote in
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> Motherboard is a P5K with 8gb ram with 2 ide drives and 2 burners.
>
>
>
Well are the burners SATA or IDE? Look at the connector at the back
of the burner, then reply.

John Carter <> wrote:
> wrote in
> news:20090702232545.157$:
>
> > Motherboard is a P5K with 8gb ram with 2 ide drives and 2 burners.
> >
> >
> >
> Well are the burners SATA or IDE? Look at the connector at the back
> of the burner, then reply.


The burners are sata and my hard drives are ide.

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"Ian D" <> wrote:
> <> wrote in message
> news:20090702135540.697$...
> >I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
> > me a bit of advice.
> >
> > Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would
> > like to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial
> > connectors should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or?
> > Or does it make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> > thank you.
> >
> > --
> > -
>
> On my Asus P5B Dlx MB you can boot from the red SATA
> connectors, and the black connectors are non-bootable, for
> data drives only. To be able to boot from CD/DVD, at least
> one of your drives should be connected to a red connector.


So I should leave one on a red connector and one on a black for best
performance?

>
> So, this actually was a motherboard question.

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Per ASUS P5K Motherboard User Guide (version E3270) page 2-30

Connector Color Setting Use
SATA 1/2 Red Master Boot disk
SATA 3/4 Black Slave Data Disk



"Ian D" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Ian D" <> wrote in message
> news: ...
>>
>> <> wrote in message
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>>> "Ian D" <> wrote:
>>>> <> wrote in message
>>>> news:20090702135540.697$...
>>>> >I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
>>>> > me a bit of advice.
>>>> >
>>>> > Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and would
>>>> > like to know which is the best way to connect them. Which serial
>>>> > connectors should I use? One to a black connetor and one to red or?
>>>> > Or does it make a difference? Any help would be greatly appreciated,
>>>> > thank you.
>>>> >
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>>>>
>>>> On my Asus P5B Dlx MB you can boot from the red SATA
>>>> connectors, and the black connectors are non-bootable, for
>>>> data drives only. To be able to boot from CD/DVD, at least
>>>> one of your drives should be connected to a red connector.
>>>
>>>
>>> So I should leave one on a red connector and one on a black for best
>>> performance?
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So, this actually was a motherboard question.
>>>
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>> Connect both drives to the red connectors. That way they'll
>> both be bootable. In your BIOS, make sure your SATA is
>> configured as IDE, which should be the default. In BIOS
>> the setting is in "SATA Configuration", under the "Main"
>> tab. Your MB should have 4 red, and 2 black SATA
>> connectors, which means you have 2 red ones free if you
>> decide to add one or two SATA drives. The red and black
>> connectors are connected to the Intel Southbridge. Your
>> IDE hard drives are connected to the auxiliary controller,
>> probably a JMicron.
>>
>>
> I forgot to add that, if you have a lone SATA connector
> near the back of the MB, it's attached to the auxiliary
> SATA controller, which also controls the eSATA.
>

"Ian D" <> wrote:
> "Ian D" <> wrote in message
> news: ...
> >
> > <> wrote in message
> > news:20090703144830.110$...
> >> "Ian D" <> wrote:
> >>> <> wrote in message
> >>> news:20090702135540.697$...
> >>> >I know this group is for motherboards but hope that someonecan give
> >>> > me a bit of advice.
> >>> >
> >>> > Ihave two ASUS DRW 2014L1T dvd burners on the same machine and
> >>> > would like to know which is the best way to connect them. Which
> >>> > serial connectors should I use? One to a black connetor and one to
> >>> > red or? Or does it make a difference? Any help would be greatly
> >>> > appreciated, thank you.
> >>> >
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> >>> > -
> >>>
> >>> On my Asus P5B Dlx MB you can boot from the red SATA
> >>> connectors, and the black connectors are non-bootable, for
> >>> data drives only. To be able to boot from CD/DVD, at least
> >>> one of your drives should be connected to a red connector.
> >>
> >>
> >> So I should leave one on a red connector and one on a black for best
> >> performance?
> >>
> >>>
> >>> So, this actually was a motherboard question.
> >>
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> >
> > Connect both drives to the red connectors. That way they'll
> > both be bootable. In your BIOS, make sure your SATA is
> > configured as IDE, which should be the default. In BIOS
> > the setting is in "SATA Configuration", under the "Main"
> > tab. Your MB should have 4 red, and 2 black SATA
> > connectors, which means you have 2 red ones free if you
> > decide to add one or two SATA drives. The red and black
> > connectors are connected to the Intel Southbridge. Your
> > IDE hard drives are connected to the auxiliary controller,
> > probably a JMicron.
> >
> >
> I forgot to add that, if you have a lone SATA connector
> near the back of the MB, it's attached to the auxiliary
> SATA controller, which also controls the eSATA.


Thanks a bunch, I appreciate your help!

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