How do I rename the 2 optical drives in a mac pro

On the Mac Pro (OSX 10.6.8), using Toast to copy a CD, I often find that the "read" phase assumes I am going to "write" to a disc in the same Superdrive, even though there are two of them. The superdrives both have identical names, so selecting the drive is guesswork.
I've tried quite a few searches on both the Apple forums & Google, to find out if it's possible to rename these two drives (ie, in the same way that Windows allocates a drive letter to each).

Nope.
Once upon a time when ATA busses offered Master and Slave settings you could set one as Master, and Toast would automatically show that as the first optical drive on the list. It all went away once they went to cable select settings on the ATA.
I had/have the SAME issue and it got so thoroughly frustrating that I pulled one of the super-drives, (Pioneer DVR-112) installed it in an external case and stuffed a used $5 DVD-rom drive from Goodwill in the second slot.
(Actually, given how hard it is to find ATA DVD burners, you could do a lot worse than to put one aside for limited use. I'd give anything to get another DVR-112.)

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