IDE CDRW Multiple Burners- WE DID IT!!!
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  1. February 5th, 2002, 10:52 AM #1
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    Cool IDE CDRW Multiple Burners- WE DID IT!!!

    I week or so ago, I posted a message asking for CD software that was capable of burning to multiple drives at once. Just wanted to post back and let you all know that we got it to work!

    We tried doing it with a P4 1.6 and it couldn't do it, but we were sucessfull with an Athlon XP 1600+. WE are using a Gigabyte GA-7ZXE, 1 GB PC133 Ram, Windows XP Pro, One LG-52X CDROM drive, and SEVEN Mitsumi 24x10x40 CDRW drives! They are all hoooked up to 2 Promise ATA 100 TX2 Controller cards. (not for the speed, but the ability to run 8 drives )

    The software we are using is CD-Mate - the demo downloaded from <a href="http://www.cd-mate.com" target="_blank">www.cd-mate.com</a> (about $30.00 US to register as opposed to the $200.00 for Disk Juggler!)

    Works AWESOME! We are able to burn 7 CDs at once- the largest one we duplicate is about 500 MB, takes about 2 minutes per cd (14 minutes between CD changes) This is making our life WAY easier, and we are even going to try and sell this setup in our next catalog! The boss is excited. We just have to come up with a way to market it- we can't really market is as a piracy tool! We have a smaller unit as well, in a single tower with 4 burners (7 drive version is in a server tower- one of those 'doublewides').

    We never thought we'd actually get it to work without SCSI, but we did!
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  2. February 5th, 2002, 11:05 AM #2
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    How much was final cost (system drives software etc)? Just curious.
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  3. February 5th, 2002, 11:13 AM #3
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    Not sure on the cost- these are all parts from stock (we are a PC manufacturer). Once the system is for sale, I'll post the cost... I am sure it will be pricey- ya gotta figure at least about $75-$80 for each burner.
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  4. February 5th, 2002, 11:31 AM #4
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    Another (probably dumb) question. Where did you put all them drives?
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  5. February 5th, 2002, 11:44 AM #5
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    Cant find the exact image, but here is basically what we are using- it is a server tower, with the optional drive bay- we have the MB and rest of the parts on the left, and all the CDROMS and the HD on the right.
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  6. February 5th, 2002, 10:07 PM #6
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    That is one NICE setup!

    I'm glad you got it all working
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