A Baffling Experience

[Spawn_abx]

Hello all,

I'm having a real issue and would like to request some assistance.

Dell Precision 530 (SCSI)
Windows XP Professional SP2 & Latest Updates
Rosewill RC-215 PCI SATA/ATA RAID Controller
Nero 6 Ultra
IMAPI = Disabled
(1) Sony IDE DVD+/-RW DW-Q28A
(2) Sony/NEC/Optiarc SATA DVD+/-RW DL AD-7190S

Ok!

While attempting to use multiple recorders (2), my system will only write to one drive at a time. It does not matter if I use the IDE and SATA drive either. Nero still burns to a single drive. While watching the Nero progress window, it shows the system writing to one drive for a moment, and then to the other, and back and forth until completion. It also takes 5x as long to complete the burning process when compared to a single disc burn.

Another strange or odd occurrence, in the Device Manager, and while the Write options are available, I can only Write Enable ONE burner. If I navigate to the second burner and enable it, the first drive automatically disables writing.

This is driving me nuts!

Any and all assistance will be greatly appreciated!!!
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After reconfiguring to make the Sony IDE drive the primary master, XP no longer recognized the drive as a burner, but Nero can burn with it.

Also, after attempting a 4Gb ISO burn to both Optiarc drives, it continues writing to a single drive at a time. It's baffling that burning a 600Mb ISO allowed me to write to both drives simultaneously after the 50% point, but the larger ISO file would not.

This truly is one of the most bizzare hardware issues I've run across.

And, YES, this was originally posted on CDFreaks!

[rjs735]

Most burning software don't have the capability of burning to more than one device at a time. The rational for this is this is not a commercial CD producing software.

If you go to CDfreaks look around there is software that allows you to burn more than one cd at a time. Also download the CDRfaq or the DVDfaq they have better answers as to why.

[gregg]

I have a Sony DRU 510A and a Liteon LH-20A1P burner os slaves on seperate IDE channels and can burn to both at the sam time with Nero 7 Premium. One shows Smartburn and the other shows fastburn but it is burning both discs at the same time.

[ctal]

I use Nero 7 as well; it is expressly designed to support running multiple burners in parallel. It burns two DVD's on my 2 IDE burners in just about exactly the same amount of time as burning 1 DVD requires.

Not sure what to suggest about Spawn's problem, though.

Regards,

-- Al

[rjs735]

Well there you have it I learned something new. My neros date to 5.1.. Plus I didn't have all this money to spend on 2 CDRW let alone DVDRW back when CDRW were $200 a pop each. So there was no need to even investigate burning 2 cds at once.