Burning two discs at once with MacPro

[pastrychef]

I remember burning two discs at once and there was a dramatic slow down on both burns...

 

[WardC]

So how would this work in iTunes? How can you burn two music CDs on two SuperDrives, each at the same time? iTunes puts the second one in queue, and only burns one at a time.

 

[Msbeezy]

I burn 2 discs at once all the time using 2 copies of toast.

I'm sure the only speed limit would be your hard drive (transferring data to the burners), not the IDE bus... I'm kind of amazed anyone even mentions it, that's just silly.

I use a RAID-0 for my hard drives and have no problems. I don't know about anybody else though.

I get the feeling sometimes that the hard drive is slowing, but if the burning is all that's going on, it works fine.

Edit:

Btw, there's a lot of pictures of stuff you can do with drives in the mac pro here:
http://www.tenthousandpercent.com/?section=other

I run 2 Pioneer BRD burners simultaneously with no problems..(sata)

 

[degl]

Right now; i'm burning 200 Dvd with Botcamp on Windows 7 using Nero, using 2 DVD burners because Nero recognize them and allow multiple recording, so must be a software related problem more than Ide or Sata problem.

Or try Dragon Burner
http://www.nticorp.com/en/us/product/dragon_burn.asp#

Sorry for my english

 

[degl]

Confirmed! Dragon burn can make multiple copies at the same time, but the must stupid thing is no number of copies to do.

Ja.. I guess you cannot have all.

 

[jedijoe]

With disk utility, I've burned 3 discs at once back with my 12" Powerbook G4. 1 internal and 2 DVD-R drives daisy chained using firewire 400 and it worked just fine.

I don't believe Roxio Toast has any ability to burn more than one at a time. Toast is utter crap anyways.