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Two burners - on same or separate IDE channels?

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Paperdoc

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I'm about to assemble my first complete build with an ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe MB and an Athlon 64 x2 4400+ (89w) CPU plus 2GB RAM. I will use 2 x 320 GB SATA II Seagate drives, so no hard drives on the IDE channels. But I'm putting in 2 DVD burners, one with Lightscribe. Anyone know whether it would be better to connect them both on one IDE channel as master and slave, or on separate channels as masters each? I expect the only times it would have any imact is when one is copying from one to the other, or when one is burning two DVD's at once.
 
You won't be able to burn with them both with them on master and slave (simultaniously). Definitely have to be two seperate channels, and even that is going to be iffy because of the demand it puts on the computer.
 
Originally posted by: fixxxer0
You won't be able to burn with them both with them on master and slave (simultaniously). Definitely have to be two seperate channels, and even that is going to be iffy because of the demand it puts on the computer.
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I have two DVD burners on the same channel, one is master and the other is slave. I have burned two DVDs at the same time with no problems. To be fair fair I was only burning the DVDs at 8X, but there were no problems with it.

Now, if yo have the option of putting them on seperate IDE channels, it wouldn't hurt. But from my experience, there is no problem with having them on the same channel.
 
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