Burning 2 DVD simultaneously... slow

[Christopher Browne]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 12:42 PM, William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I usually burn 1 DVD at a time, so I didn't noticed this before.  When
> burning 2 DVD-RW simultaneously (one SATA burner and one USB burner),
> the speed crawls and fluctuates.  I would've thought modern computer is
> more than capable of handling 2 DVDs at the same time.  Anyone
> experienced this?

I haven't tried; i imagine you're overpowering the bandwidth of
something, whether:
a) SATA
b) USB
c) How fast can you read from the source?
d) Possible Linux-ism...  Likely the output is passing through a
single SCSI interface within the kernel, which *should* be fine, but
perhaps not?
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