Using Two Drives On Macpro Simultaneously

I have a couple of Pioneer 115D drives in my Macpro and have recently tried to get them to burn together as a time saver. All I managed to do was get the bottom drive to be shown as the top one and the other one the bottom ... ! Anyone have any ideas as to whether such a thought can be made to work ?

Ron wrote:
Mike, at the moment I'm using iDVD and Utility App but I'll have a look into Toast with the same iDVD product. If Toast produces from one iDVD prog then I'm presuming the same should occur with twin entries in the finder ... ?
Ron,
I am afraid I don't understand your question to me here. I don't use iDVD at all and I don't know what "Utility app" is. I use my two burners for putting large volumes of data onto DVD and BD discs simultaneously after a big job. Duplicate copies of Toast app works well for this, I don't know whether duplicate copies of iDVD would do the same, if that is what you are asking. I'll help more if I can.
I did have a problem when I added the blu ray with upper and lower. I could only get the correct matching by putting the blu ray in the lower whereas I wanted it in the upper originally. But the blu ray is SATA so may not be relevant to your situation.
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