The black socket is a FDD socket so had no luck there, so i tried the slave and master thingy on 1 ide cable this time didint even reconize the drives, so i put it back to how i originally had it, burnt a couple of dvds but more failed, I want it so it works 100%, none of this randomly failing for no reason it is REALLY buggin me, i find it strange that it picks the dvd burner up on a raid connection, IF ANYONE CAN HELP I WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE IT BECAUSE AT THE MOMENT I AM PULLING MY HAIR OUT!!! check the log out and see what you think As you can see below my burner is on viamraid port 2 with dma off, if that is the issue then a fix would be great, cheers DiskPeripheral : ST3160827AS atapi Port 0 ID 0 DMA: On CdRomPeripheral : HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8164B atapi Port 1 ID 1 DMA: On CdRomPeripheral : PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D1.37 viamraid Port 2 ID 0 DMA: Off CdRomPeripheral : Generic DVD-ROM 1.0 d347prt Port 3 ID 0 DMA: Off