Problem with user install of 2 optical drives

The optical drive in my 2007 MacPro died (2,1), so, in the spirit of true Mac-Pro-ness I decided to replace it with 2 drives. The first is a Lightscribe DVD burner (ATA), the second is a Pioneer Blu-Ray drive (SATA).
I took it apart and installed an SATA cable into SATA-1 on the motherboard. Drive 1 (Lightscribe) is installed as "top" using the OEM cabling, the Blu-Ray drive is in bay 2 and uses my aftermarket SATA cable. Drive 1 is jumpered as "cable select", there are no jumpers on drive 2, at least none that I can see.
These drives are not playing well together. When restarting, both drives are visible in System Profiler under "disc burning", and drive 2 opens with "option-eject". Drive 1 even has a neat menu bar icon right next to the Airport icon for a quick eject.
Once drive 2 has been opened once, however, it disappears from the System Profiler "disc burning" category and attempts to open it show this error:
"The disc can’t be used because the disc drive is not supported (error code 0x80020025)." It is still visible in the "SATA" category in System Profiler, and is named and identified correctly.
I suppose that it's possible that it's just incompatible, but OWC has never been wrong before re: compatibility.
Is there a better way to configure these 2 drives? Should drive 1 be set to "master"? Is there a way to set drive 2 (the SATA drive) to "slave"?
I'm running OS 10.7.3. THanks.

I have the same problem.  I replaced my optical drive with the Pioneer BDR206BK Blu-Ray drive.  I also purchased this from OWC.  I have a 2008 Mac Pro,  3,1.  I start up my computer and it works great, when it awakes from sleep I get error code 0x80020025 I am running 10.7.3.  I ran DiskWarrier once and it fixed the problem for a week and it came back.
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