I have a Quadra 800 and I am running 1.3 with the Quadra video patch.  
     I have 3 CDROM drives hooked up to it, an original single speed 
     external Apple CDROM drive, a Toshiba double speed, and an internal 
     Apple 300i.  I have CDs mounted in the Toshiba and the 300i and 
     available for public FTP.  I am not expecting any sort of great 
     performance since they are such slow drives, and multiple requests 
     will slow it even further.  
     My problem is that it doesn't just get slow, it freezes my machine 
     when there are multiple requests or a request for a large file.  I 
     know this is not very helpful information, I was just wondering if 
     there was any information I could collect in case someone with the 
     know-how wanted to figure it out.  Or maybe it is such a ridiculous 
     thing to do that I shouldn't even worry about it.
     
     mario
     
     ps- I have plenty of RAM and plenty of Swap and HardDrive space.