Using two drives as source/target for copying a disk?

Greetings,
Please bear with what is probably a stupid question from a pc ship-jumper Mac newbie.
I ordered my new Mac Pro with two Pioneer optical drives in order to, as Apple says, "streamline disk burning".
I learned that Toast is the gold standard for disk burning on Macs, so I bought the Titanium version.
I assumed it would be straightforward to use the top drive as the Source for a burn and the bottom drive as the Target.
But I can't find any way to accomplish this, either with Toast or with Apple's own Disk Utility.
It always creates a disk image and then wants a blank disk to be inserted into the same drive.
Am I overlooking something really simple here? I'm not sure why there would be any need for two drives if having a source/target arrangement is not possible, or why Apple would say having two drives "streamlines" things.
Thanks in advance for any help or insight you can provide.
- Gregg

I told you it was a stupid question.
I figured out that in Toast, you have to go ahead and click the 'Record' button, then you get a chance to select the second drive as the target. It was a little confusing because both drives have the same name. The difference is the drive with the source disk in it will appear as not writeable.
Hopefully this post will help some other idiot.

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Edited by: sneha marla on Dec 9, 2008 9:57 PM
Edited by: sneha marla on Dec 10, 2008 9:59 PM

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