Re: Strange PEER error with Dani's 506 1.81 generic question

James J. Weinkam wrote:

If you try to do anything at all with the other device on the same controller while a burn is in progress, you wind up with a coaster.

Also, when I did have two cd or dvd drives in the same system, I never had any success with cd to cd or dvd to dvd copies. The only way I have ever gotten copying to work reliably was to copy the source to a hard drive and then burn the hard drive image to the destination.

I think this is going to be dependent on the quality of the IDE chipset, as well as the quality of the drivers. Assuming the use of Dani's drivers, I'd say the former is the biggest concern, especially if you have VIA, SiS, ALi, etc.
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