using two burners at once :)

[atifsh]

ok before somone through me golden rules for burning, this was just for my
curiosity i wanna see what will happen if i try to burn files simultaneously.
well in short one of the drive failed and hung at varification, other hung at 99 % and i had to force shutdown PC.

[techreactor]

It shouldnt be behaving like that, you should be able to burn as long as adequate resources are present, can you please post your configuration.

[Chewy]

the problem is usually trying to send data from one hard drive to 2 burners at the same time, I recently found out that it's almost as bad as trying to burn 2 different sets of data on one harddrive at the same time

My tests have found that you might as well burn at 8x one disk at a time
as even try 4X 2 disks at a time

It's easy with 2 hard drives and 2 burners all on seperate cables to burn 2 disks at 8X

[NightTran]

ok before somone through me golden rules for burning, this was just for my
curiosity i wanna see what will happen if i try to burn files simultaneously.
well in short one of the drive failed and hung at varification, other hung at 99 % and i had to force shutdown PC.

if you have sata drives or diff patitions, then you have two burners with separate cable you can burn two at one time. I did post a screen shot in dare burning when I burn three at one time ( I have seen pp post screen shot burn ten at one time)

[atifsh]

Chewy

yes i was burning from single harddrive to 2 burners. will try to burn frm 2 hardrivs again and post.

techreactor

200 gb sata harddrive + philips 8701 + liteon 16H5S + 2gb ram + 3 Ghz P4 . philips stuck at 99 , liteon at verification.

[atifsh]

if you have sata drives or diff patitions, then you have two burners with separate cable you can burn two at one time.

u mean if i try seperate cable i can burn on 2 burners from single drive? my drives on sata so i can do that.

[NightTran]

the source are in diff HD and the burners are separate cable ( if you have sata burners then I am sure you are fine)

I used DVDD I dont know about imgburn or nero burning

[Chewy]

using a single hard drive won't work right, whether it's serial or pata

in theory it might if both burners were identical and you were using nero,
only one instance and the files to be written to the hard drive were buffered in ram, my son and I have done this in the past at 4X almost as fast as burning a single disk, at 8X my tests worked but took almost as long as a single 4X burn

Since I don't have matching dvd burners I can't retest

[atifsh]

the source are in diff HD and the burners are separate cable ( if you have sata burners then I am sure you are fine)

I used DVDD I dont know about imgburn or nero burning

no i dont have sata burners.
but atleast i know now i can burn [in theory] i can burn with seperate hardrives, have to test that on my system, for any future requirments of burning with 2 writers at once.

thnks all for the info.