recomended fast ata IDE controller and software

[Dantron]

Looking for some advice.
My system is currently:
a3000 in elbox mirage 3000d tower
warpengine 3040
32 megs ram
2 megs chip
1 internal 2 gig scsi hard drive running off warp scsi controller
Mediator from elbox
voodoo 3
network card
picasso IV
DPS PAR card
AD516 sunrise sound card

I would really like to be able to burn CD's or DVD's even better.  I would also like to get a bigger hardrive.
So I am thinking access to IDE drives would be the way to go, no?
So to do that, what controller would you recommend for my system?
Once the controller is in, do I just buy any PC DVD re-writable cheap drive?  What burning software should I use?  I browsed the net a little, and found frying pan, which seems to be still in development which is good.
Also, if I plugged a new hard drive into said controller, would it work concurrently with the scsi drive through the warp controller?
Thanks for the help all.
Dan

[Dantron]

I appreciate the advice.  Out of curiosity why do you recommend this?
My thoughts are if I had a ide controller I could buy a dvd burner and a 200gig hard drive.... like both for around 150 bucks.  A scsi dvd burner alone could cost.... well alot!
If it's a scsi speed versus ide speed issue, I think I could put up with the slower performance.
What are your thoughts?
Dan

[Dantron]

Ok, cool, that is all really good advice.  Having always had the amiga 3000 with a scsi drive I never knew about the processor slow down issues.  I do use programs like the AD516 which need to read and write directly to the HD so a slow down could have been bad.

Now as to burning software.  What is a good choice both for functionality, but also future.  If there are 2 programs that both do the task fine, but one is still being developed I would prefer to support that one.

Thanks,
Dan