I found an old thread about this but didn't find a resolution. The thread contained advice from Opus indicating that each harddrive should be connected separately to it's own IDE controller, positioned on the connector closest to the motherboard, and that the CD drives should be slaved from them.

so I'm pretty sure I'm going to go with a SCSI CD-R (Plextor) but was wondering if IDE's were really that bad. it'll be used for audio CD burning and data backup. your thoughts?

does anyone know if you can use a re-writeable CD (CD-RW) for creating audio CD's? when i'm working on a mix i like to check it on several different systems. it seems like a waste however to sacrifice a complete CD for a single tune each time i want to do this. is it possible to use CD-RW media to create an audio CD that is readable by a consumer CD player?

I have the 412 PLEXTOR and it's make CDRs at 4X burn speed that skip. I use CRWin by Jeff Arnold, and it's on a 700 MHz Pentium with 128 meg of memory. I'm not sure of the settings it's supposed to have but I can look at anything (if I knew what to look for). Any clues?

I'm getting ready to purchase something to mix down to. I am going to be mixing from Adat. I am currently looking at Tascam and Marantz for CD-r and whatever I can find used for dat.
Which, in your opinion is better, a stand-alone CD-r or a dat deck, and why?

Thanks!