hanging when burning with two burners started at the same time

[kevin666]

i dont have any problems just it hangs when i start burning two things at once. it seems like whatever one starts doing the OPC first makes the other hang untill the OPC is done. i know i could probably just disable it but it kindof seems like a bug.

[LIGHTNING UK!]

This is a system thing and has nothing to do with the program.

 

Are they IDE drives or SATA?

[kevin666]

This is a system thing and has nothing to do with the program.

 

Are they IDE drives or SATA?

 

IDE, running windows 7 oem x64

they are both matching pioneer dvd-rw dvr-109 1.58

[Cynthia]

Some older drives have issues when OPC is enabled and that's why that setting went from enabled to disabled by default in a fresh installation of ImgBurn.

[kevin666]

it works fine its just when i have 2 imgburn's open at the same time and i hit burn at the same time the one will just hang till the other finishes the opc

[mmalves]

Are they on the same cable?

[kevin666]

yes they are

[LIGHTNING UK!]

There's your problem then.

[kevin666]

my motherboard only has one ide plug. so because of that i have to deal with the hanging then? its not a big deal i guess. iv never had any problems execpt this. and its not really a problem just an annoyance. thanks anyways

[LIGHTNING UK!]

They normally have 1 when they don't really have any at all - like in all modern Intel chipsets. Then they have to use a 3rd party controller chip to give you an IDE port and a couple more SATA's.

 

Do you know what type of controller it is? The latest motherboard bios and drivers might help but IDE doesn't really like dealing with 2 drives at the same time. The OPC command isn't one that the drive returns control from instantly (known as Immediate I/O) so the machine is kinda stuck whilst it processes it... that's what you're seeing here.

 

SATA drives would probably be the way to go but even then I can't say that I've ever tried burning 2 at exactly the same time with OPC enabled.