Two optical drives on the same IDE channel usually work well, since they usually can run at the same speed (UDMA 2) and use the same (ATAPI) driver. I believe the biggest problem here is that UDMA 2 is not fast enough to simultaneously read and write at 16x.

Citizen Bob wrote:
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> On Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:35:34 GMT, "Pete" <not@this.address> wrote:
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> >I have heard that for multiple simultaneous burners it's best that the
> >burners are on separate IDE channels.
>
> What happens if two optical drives are on the same IDE channel?
>
> I am having a problem with an NEC 3540 as Master and an LG CD-burner
> as Slave, selected by CD.
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