Adaptec , Nero , and CDRwin . I know there are others, but the ideas are all the same. For a more complete list, check here . They hook up to the same cable type as your hard drive. For those who are using externals, either parallel or USB , or are using SCSI , read the manual, I'm not going into detail about those setups here.
Most manufacturers recommend the burner be the master drive on the secondary channel .
You can move the removable drives to a different letter after you've installed it. More on that later. It allows for faster, more reliable data tranfer from an image on your hard drive. By far the most reliable way of burning. It allows for faster, more reliable data transfer from your CD-ROM, when doing CD copies.