[flyhigh37]

Hi. So I've got my PB with an internal CD-RW, and have bought a very nice, fast Lacie external drive in addition. I bought it for the faster burn speed (48x), and for the ability to burn a disc directly from another disc. However I have yet to get Toast to burn "live" between 2 discs. If I pop a data disc into my laptop, and a blank Cd-R into the Lacie, my computer first copies the data onto the harddrive, then burns the cd. I KNOW there is some way to bypass this step, but cannot seem to find it. Hopefullly it's something easy, any help is much appreciated!!
-flyhigh

[PeteWK]

Do you have the free version of Toast or the store purchased copy?

Pete

[Eug]

What's the read speed of your laptop CD-ROM?

[flyhigh37]

Sorry for not providing enough details initially. The drive is (straight from the website) :

Optical drive
Slot-loading DVD-ROM/CD-RW Combo drive (reads DVDs at 8x and CDs at 24x; writes CD-R and CD-RW discs at 8x)

The version of Toast I am using came included with my external Lacie burner. It's version 5.1.4L and not the full, retail version

Thanks alot!

-Flyer

[superlarry]

there's your problem - you have to be able to read from the source disk as quickly (or preferably more quickly) as you're trying to write. you might be able to get this to work by lowering the burn speed to 24x or below (matching the speed of your CD-ROM drive). if not, then i'm not sure - toast does cd to cd copies for me, but of course i only have a 4x burner.