Nero burning program

[gravyonmychin]

Hi to all,
I have a Pioneer 109 DVD Writer installed and use Nero Ultra to burn my discs.
Q. Can I install a Pioneer DVD 106 DVD Writer (underneath ) and burn two discs at the same time by opening Nero to burn one compilation and then open Nero again to burn a different compilation. Will it try to send both compilations to the same burner and confuse itself?
Secondly, if it is possible, will I be able to burn two at once. My rig is:
Athlon 64 3500 (939 pin)
Dual Channel Corsair PC 3200 Matched pair 1gb total
500gb SATA (2X250)
Dont want it to run out of steam and fail on 'communication error' as it does on the pc downstairs.
Is it a case of it auto detecting the second drive and list it at the top in the task bar and merely select the required burner.
Any imput is most welcome and thank you for taking the time to help, it is much appreciated.

[dave87]

isn't the communication error due to it being on the same PATA channel and data transfer effectively stopping (exaggeration but you get the point). If you were to run it off 2 separate channels there shouldnt be a problem I wouldn't have thought?

[autopilot]

Yeah, you can burn 2 disks at the same time, but you really need them on separate IDE channels. If they are not I believe you can tell Nero to do one straight after the other. If you have good burners with decent buffer under-run protection, you may be able to do 2 on the same channel at the same time, but it would probably been quite slow. I would not recommend this way though.

[csi_grissom]

thats not possible to do that from what i know and see, if u want to be burning 2 drives at once ud better get a 1-3 dup for about £80, pc`s cant handle doing 2 at once like that, with the way burning cds and dvds etc i wouldnt try to make it do summit like that as the cpu just couldnt do it and i never seen nero to be able to do 2 at once like that.

[Funkstar]

Nero has had the option to burn the same thing to different drive from years, PC's are easily capable of doing this as long as they are set up properly. So as long as each drive is on it's own channel, or in external Firewire cases then i see no reason why two copies of Nero couldn't burn to different targets at the same time.

If i can get three copies of EAC running all ripping my CD collection from different drives then nero should be able to do as you ask.

[mrbanana]

As previously mentioned, make each drive a master on its own ide channel and use SATA hard drives.

I guess it would also work if you put one burner in a caddy and run it off usb2 or firewire. Has anyone tried that?