2 burners + toast = burning 2 dvds at the same time?

hi there,
i have a mdd g4 dually 1.25. i have 1 burner in 1 drive.
if i add another burner to the 2nd drive, can i burn 2 dvds at once? also, can i do this with toast? i could always burn 1 build with disk utility i suppose?
i run a video transfer biz so this would help with burn times.
cheers,
keebler

Thanks Malcolm. Can you clarify what you mean by
saying " the files are on separate hard drives it
would be OK since the hard drives use a faster ATA
bus. " I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed trying
to understand this stuff
The cable from the hard drives connects to a faster controller than the cable from the optical drives, so it can handle more megabytes per second. If you are reading two files at once from one drive, the heads in the drive have to keep moving back and forth between the two files. This slows the read since no data is being read while the heads are moving. If the files are on two drives, each drive has its heads in the right position, so reads are faster. The cable from the hard drives is fast enough to handle the data from two drives at once.
I always burn at 1x speed so that won't be an issue
and i do have 4 internal HDs so having the files on
sep HDs isn't an issue. good to know..thanks.
Why not get one fast drive and burn at 8X? (I don't trust 16X yet.)

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