Two dvd burners in one machine?

[FTLOSM]

I am revamping an old atx case with a new motherboard/processor, and upgrading the cd rom with new dvdrom.

I have a dvd burner in the machine already (pioneer 108) and its a great unit, but I wanted to add a basic dvdrom drive, was at newegg and saw a nice toshiba dvd burner for $44, thought why not get that (its not much more than a standard dvd rom drive) and if my Pioneer fails I have another burner on hand plus it will do the basic dvd reading I am looking for.

On the secondary IDE channel I currently have my pioneer 108 as the master and a old samsung cdrom drive as the slave, can I keep my pinoeer 108 in the master setting and add that toshiba dvdburner as the slave and just have 2 burners in my system?

Will this cause any sort of conflict hardware or software wise? Hopefully not - I don't plan to burn with both at the same time, but was more interested in getting the toshiba as a dvdrom player (to ease the use of the pioneer a bit), and figured for like $20 more just get this burner vs a standard dvdrom read-only drive.

Just wasnt sure if I could run 2 dvd burners like this or if it would somehow cause a problem.

Thanks for any help on this,
Bill

 

[keeleysam]

:thumbsup:

 

[Rottie]

it should work ok stop worry too much

 

[minerman]

Bill I have two burners in my system a Plextor 716SA and a Sony DRU-720A and both work great with no problems what so ever.

 

[Mrpilot007]

I have two DVD Burners, one is a single layer and the other is a dual layer. No problems here.

In reguards to the channels, I would put one dvd burner on ide 1 and the other drive on ide 2. That way you are using it to the maximum speed.

 

[blodhi74]

Originally posted by: Rottie
it should work ok stop worry too much

what he said... it should not ne an issue

 

[superfly27]

do you ever have any problems copying?