Dual DVD Recording with Sony DRU-500A and NEC ND-1100A

[Kennyshin]

I received my I-O DATA 4x DVD+R writer, DVR ABN4P, which is an NEC ND-1100A yesterday.

I am right now burning a 2x DVD-R disk with Sony DRU-500A and a 2.4x DVD+RW disk with NEC ND-1100A simultaneously.

System Configuration

Athlon 1.33GHz CPU
Chaintech AMD-761 Motherboard
Crucial PC2100 DDR-SDRAM 512MB

Onboard ATA-100

Primary Master - HDD: Seagate Barracuda ATA IV 40GB
Primary Slave - none
Secondary Master - ODD: Sony DRU-500A
Secondary Slave - ODD: NEC ND-1100A

RaidTech Aralion ATA-100 4-channel PCI

Primary Master - HDD: Maxtor 5,400-RPM 100GB

[glock20rocks]

Cool!

I want a DVD burner
Come on Plextor, make a dual-format DVD burner!

Were the sources for the two dvd's on the same drive or different drives?
I tried burning two CDs at once but it didn't do too well (but then, I did have 'em both on the same channel, which explains everything. I hate being out of IDE connectors).

[Bhairav]

Wow... nice going Kennyshin!
What was the cpu usage when you burned the 2 discs simultaneously? Were you able to multitask easily?

[Kennyshin]

Wow... nice going Kennyshin!
What was the cpu usage when you burned the 2 discs simultaneously? Were you able to multitask easily?

It was not very high but my system was lagging a lot even when burning one disc. Nothing to do with the performance of an Athlon 1.33GHz though.

The system was doing various other jobs.

I just posted it since this was the first time I tried dual DVD burning. The system needs to have a fresh OS installation.

[Kennyshin]

Cool!

I want a DVD burner
Come on Plextor, make a dual-format DVD burner!

Were the sources for the two dvd's on the same drive or different drives?
I tried burning two CDs at once but it didn't do too well (but then, I did have 'em both on the same channel, which explains everything. I hate being out of IDE connectors).

The same HDD.

HDD D: -> ODD E
HDD D: -> ODD G

It'll be much better with Serial ATA since the cable is so long and thin.

[glock20rocks]

Longer cables are always a plus. Better still, serial ATA is supposed to be better at multitasking with two drives on the same channel (more like SCSI). That'd certainly help SerialATA RAID performance.

[Pradeep]

Serial ATA defines one device per channel, there is no daisy chaining like IDE or SCSI.