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DVD Burner Question

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m21s

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Is there anything I should know about hooking up 2 dvd burners up in my case?
Is it just an easy install like having 1 or is there more to it?

Question being is I want to be able to burn 2 DVD's at the same time.

Is there anything special I should know before I purchase the second one?
I already have 1 plextor 716A and would like to buy another. The first one is not a SATA one either.

Thanks
 
I can't really remember, but someone told me use Cable Select on both the drives. I could be wrong, I can't remember my source. Other than that you should be able to install and burn two DVD's at the same time.
 
Yes - drives have 3 jumper settings. Master, Slave, and CSEL. The letter determines M or S by position on the cable.

I don't recommend what you are trying to do. Save a lot of problems by putting one of those drives in an external case and connect Firewire or USB 2.
 
Why would you not recommend it?
You never mentioned any specifics, this is why i am asking this question.
 
Stay away fro cable select.

If both drives are IDE, connect one to each channel. You should have something like this:
IDE Channel 1: Primary-HDD (connector at the end), Secondary-DVD
IDE Channel 2: Primary-DVD

If you have another HDD, plug it into channel 2 primary, dvd second
 
Thanks for the tip.
Yes both are IDE so I can connect them together.
And my HDD is SATA so that wont be in the loop.

Thanks again!
 
I'm not sure why you want to burn 2 discs at once, but I can't guarantee it will work. You would need to run 2 separate instances of the burning software, and that's asking for a meltdown. They would have the same access to the same computer parts, conflicts are more than likely.

I'm not a fan of Disc-to-disc copying, but it should work without the issues mentioned above.

The Plextor you have is capable of cranking out a 4.5G disc in like 5 minutes (with good media, check the Plextor recommended list). 10 minutes if you verify the burn.

 
Hmmm.... having done it and still do it, I cannot agree with other posts in this thread.

I have my Pioneer 107 and NEC3500A on CS. I do believe that they are on the same ATA-100 connector also (I needed to use one longer cable to reach the drive bays in a Chenbro Dragon case). I regularly burn at 8X using Nero 6.x (upgrade from about 2 mths ago) to both DVDs from ISO files.

System spec in My Rigs (oops, need to update)
 
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