DVD drives

[reward4615]

When trying to copy dvd's I get this dialogue box appear.
Both your source & destination drives for the "on the fly" copy process are connected to the same IDE bus. We strongly recommend you connect your source and destination drives to different IDE buses.
How do I do this? and could this be the reason that when I insert a pre-recorded disc in either drive 90% of the time it "freezes" my computer completely so that I have to re-boot .
1 drive is a read only the other is read/write.

[RATTER15]

I imagine you need to unplug one of your CD/DVD Roms and plug it into another IDE slot, the same one as your hard drive maybe. Stick around and see if anybody else comes up with a more detailed solution.

[Catso]

The message is just suggesting you rearrange the connections, as ratter says.

Imagine you are trying to process incoming sales orders, and send out acknowledements. If you kept the orders in and out in the same tray, you'd have to spend time picking out uncompleted orders from the whole pile, but if you had an In tray and an Out tray, you'd work a lot faster.

Not a strictly accurate comparison, but I think you get the idea. Currently it would seem you have the drives connected to the same controller. It wants you to swap them so one can do all the in-ing and the other all the out-ing. It will be able to copy faster if you do the swap.

No, I'm afraid it's unlikely to be causing your problem. You do have the master/slave jumpers set right, do you?

[reward4615]

If the IDE slots you refer to are the connector slots on the motherboard then I only have the one my dvd drives are connected to and one my hard drive is connected to. Should I connect one dvd drive in the same slot as the hard drive?
Yes my master/slave jumpers are set right.

[RATTER15]

Yes reward you got it, you may need to buy a new lead to enable you to do it if you havent got a spare plug.