> If you disable the new Sata drive, does the DVD burning go
> back to normal speed?

Nope. The burn did start off with more of a hiss and a roar but
quickly slowed down, and ooooh turned to oh. All through the
burn it's saying that writing is at 8x (11,080kb/s) but it's not really.
It might be trying to

In Task Manager the only activity is a couple of % for Nero and
the rest for System Idle

I also moved the 80GB from Primary Master to Primary Slave,
so each internal drive is a Master on its own cable

> Is the Sata drive set up as true Sata AHCI on the BIOS or
> as pseudo IDE?

I can find no reference to AHCI or pseudo-IDE, although the
boot screen says "Auto-detecting 3rd Master..IDE Hard Disk"
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