i have a gigabyte P35C-DS3R with a q6600 cpu 36gb raptor evga 8600gts and two pioneer 115 ide dvd burners . when both dvd burners are connected as master and slave to the only ide socket the burning fails at about two percent and the system hangs till i force a reboot but if i remove the slave burner the burn goes perfectly.. i am using both nero 7 and imageburn also if i connect my external pioneer burner i also get failures and the burner spits out the disc.. the both burners have dma enabled .. should i replace the two ide pioneers for two sata burners instead... i have tried reinstalling the burning software but with the same results .. does this boards controllers just not like ide burners ? thanks in advance ..

have you installed the Latest JMicron drivers?

Don't know I have beene uing two burners on the only IDE socket and work fine. I have even been simultaneously burning on both of the with two Nero's open. One of them is Sony other Optiarc also my mobo is Abit Atal1ty AN9 32X . Maybe You have problems because they are both the same. Anyway there is no need to buy 2 Sata drives if You can't get 2 ide working buy 1 sata and keep one ide.

Just thinking, did you set the jumpers right? Some mobos don't like when you simply use the cable select jumper settings. Set one to master, one to slave, and hook them accordingly.