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programs that use the dual superdrives?

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sejanus

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hey guys

my new macpro is here with dual superdrives

I often burn 12-13gb of files - several times a day actually. What I'm doing is burning jpegs from a wedding I've photographed.

Is there any software that will automatically span over both superdrives?

i.e. using Toast to burn these files, it takes 20 odd mins per disc, but only uses 1 drive at a time so you have to put a new disc in half way.
 
Download the open source "Simply Burn" application.

Set Toast for 1 drive and Simply Burn for the other.

I can't guarantee this will work and you'll have to do the physical file juggling yourself to decide which files go on which disk but it's more likely to work than trying to run 2 copies of toast at the same time.

I think it's a huge oversight on Roxio's part that it doesn't support burning to multiple drives considering it allows you to use the DVD-R/W of any mac connected via ethernet. I'm sure both features are equally useful
 
Another person reports:
"If instead of burning direct to disc from DVDSP, you create a .dmg on your desktop (File/Advanced Burn/Build and Format/Destination/Output Device = Hard Drive) you can use Disk Utility to set both drives burning the image at the same time."​


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Roxio needs to get their asses in gear and support simultaneous burns. There's simply no way they can justify not having that feature at this point.
 
Also keep in mind that using twin superdrives on ATA/IDE (for 2006-2008 Mac Pros) might not actually be faster than burning back to back, due to the way the bus is handled. In terms of pure bandwidth it should be able to do it fine, but the real-world usage is drastically slowed. I STRONGLY recommend adding a SATA superdrive in Bay 2 and using the ODD_SATA ports.
 
hi tesselator - thanks for your research, I'll check out disk utility as mentioned. I don't think burn folders in os x span discs full stop, let alone over multiple drives :(

grue - it's a shiny new 8 core nehalem rig, does the same apply do you know?

cheers
 
Dark Dragoon said:
This is what I do when I want to burn two discs at a time, it works fine for me.
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eeks I'll have to check that, last time I tried (a fair while ago) it gave an error about not enough space on the recording medium.
 
sejanus said:
eeks I'll have to check that, last time I tried (a fair while ago) it gave an error about not enough space on the recording medium.
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Well it's a bit of a manual process.

What I do is put both blank discs in so the two burn folders appear on the desktop. Then drag the files I want to burn into the first burn folder until it's nearly full, and then start that one burning. Then drag the remaining files into the second burn folder and start that one burning.

EDIT: Oh and the Nehalem Mac Pros don't suffer from the ATA problem that the older ones had. Which is why I changed my drives to SATA in my older Mac Pro 2006, they also happen to be faster and cheaper as well.
 
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