DVD burning with 2 drives

[Brian S. Paskin]

Hi,

I had 2 LG DVD RW drives. One was a max 8x writing and the other was a
max 16x writing. At 8x, it wrote discs together in about 12 minutes.

I replaces the 8x writer with another 16x writer. Separately the
drives write a DVD at 16x at about 6 minutes. However, when they are
used together it takes over 30 minutes to write the discs.

Both drives are set to Cable Select, like before. On the IDE, I have
it set to use DMA if available.

Anything I am missing?

Thanks, Brian

 

[Ted Zieglar]

May I presume they're on the same data cable? That's twice as many
electrons trying to fit through the same door.

 

[Brian S. Paskin]

Yes, they are on the same data cable, so were the old drives.

 

[CNP]

Brian,

Are you saying that old configuration gave you two DVDs burning
simultaneously (one in each drive) in 12 minutes and new configuration is
taking 30 minutes for the same?

 

[Bob I]

Try setting back to 8x on both drives, and see what you get.