OK! WOo, got it to work... Dont tell anyone, but I took some time out at work today and did a little test.

Threw an adaptec card into an older PC (450PII) and one of those plextor 4plexplus drives (external). Seemed to work well, extracted at 4x with all the "careful" options in EAC on. So, I hooked up SIX of them. Im now ripping six CDs all at once, most are still getting 3.8-4x. Not too bad. Gotta love SCSI sometimes. This is under win95 too, Im sure the multitasking under 2000 is FAR better.

The bottleneck, of course, will be the compression, but I dont really care. Those get queued up and I can let it compress all night. (Resists thoughts of using dual P4 server downstairs...)

So, apparently multiple copies of EAC will run just fine concurrantly, although under IDE I would think limiting things to two simultaneous is a good idea, and not even that if both CDs are on the same chain...

Just had to share. And thanks for the naming help!
-Jeff