Ok....have 2 burners in 5.25 bays...both are top two positions on ide cable..all cable select on xp pro...all perfect burns...no I got for free one of those 5.25" rack adapters so I just hot swap hard drives...I put this into the stop slot where one burner was (top spot on IDE cable)....when I put the HD in all burns were aweful...buffer issues and slow burns. Nero said drive was in use on ATAPI???
So I pull the HD out and reboot...all is ok....why does this occur with the HD plugged in as described? should the burner be in the 1st place in the cable?
strange