Mastering a DVD-9 to two DVD-Rs

Hi everyone,
I've seen folks on this forum speak of mastering Layer 0 to one DVD-R, and Layer 1 to another DVD-R, as a way of delivering a DVD-9 project to a duplicator in lieu of a DLT. However, the DVDSP4 manual evinces no technical description of how to do this. When formatting through DVDSP4, it doesn't seem to be an option. Can someone point me in the right direction, in a timely fashion if possible (I just got the ubiquitous "We can't load your DLT masters" message from my client's duplicator this morning -- yikes!).
Thanks in advance for your help --
Jerome

I believe that the data would survive on an ISO 9660 DVD, if you can make such a thing. Otherwise Mac/PC format should work. You could talk to the replicator, and maybe for peace of mind make the two folders into zip archives, and put those on the DVD-R.
The one time I had to do this was a similar situation, the replicator complained about the DLT. We had done DLT because the disc used CSS encoding, not because it was double layer. I'm not sure about those other settings you talked about, but I know that CSS survives the trip via a layer0 folder.
As I've only had to do this one one shipped disc, it may be worth waiting hear other opinions here too.

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