[RESOLVED] Mulitiple Burners in a Machine

[jimmm33]

I have a customer that would like to have about 5 burners in a machine and get them all going at once to start whipping out lots of cd's fast. I have never set anything like this up.

What's the best way to go about it? What is the minimum proc you would recommend, and what would be the best software to use?

Thanks.

[godofuq]

I, personally, couldn't see 5 burners running at the same time. One burner running at a time is quite a resource hog and he would be probably seeing buffer underrun errors constantly. Maybe with 10k rpm SCSI drives in linux with a separate drive for every burner. It would be hellaciously expensive though. He might want to go with a professional duplicating machine.

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[jimmm33]

I have seen the pro burning machines. I hoped to kind of reproduce what they do. He wouldn't be burning off the hard drive but instead copying one cd to the others. My thoughts where to get a Promise controller card and put four burners on it. Put a fifth device (regular cd rom) on IDE2. Copy from IDE2 to the burners on the controller card. A 1GHZ Athlon with 256MB DDR would probably do it. The problem would be software that would burn to four drives at once. I have never had more than one burner in a machine so I don't know if it would do it.

Thoughts?

[Sowulo]

I really doubt that one CD could feed four burners....cd to cd is already the slowest burning method you can do. Much better to rip the CD to an HD first and then burn--even if you're only burning one at a time.

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[MacGyver]

You won't be able to build a multi burner machine yourself because of the issues you've described. You need a stand-alone duplicator like this: http://www.storageheaven.com/product...dvd_manual.asp - if the cost of a stand alone machine is too high, then consider outsourcing.

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[This message has been edited by MacGyver (edited October 02, 2001).]

[freddy the fisherman]

padus diskjuggler supports multiple burners on the regestered version,,,,,i tried this when i had a spare yam scsi awaiting collection (faulty door) as much as i tried i gave up in the end.i could not get two machines (identical) to accept writing at the same time

P3 700 512m memory 40g h/drive ,,,,,,and thats a scsi settup

ADDED 30 mins later......

yup padus , and it now says MULPIPLE (not how many) ref: http://www.padus.com/discjugg.htm

hope that helps

[This message has been edited by freddy the fisherman (edited October 02, 2001).]

[freddy the fisherman]

http://www.caloptic.com/padus.html

Just $ 45.00 Order Single CD Recoder
Just $160.00 Order Up to two (2) CD Recoders
Just $379.00 Order Up to four (4) CD Recoders
Just $549.00 Order Up to six (6) CD Recoders
Just $729.00 Order Up to 8 or more CD Recoders

website (padus) state that PRO version supports upto 32 (thirty-two) CDRs .

[This message has been edited by freddy the fisherman (edited October 02, 2001).]

[Terrence]

Have you also considered how much of a powersupply you would need? Myself I am not sure, something in the 600W+ range Im sure, please correct me if i am wrong.

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[freddy the fisherman]

as advertised on "ebay" UK ......"stand alone box SCSI tower takes 4 cd roms with its own PSU and fans and adaptor skt on back" ,,,,,,,they usually sell for about £30

considering that they are comming from "old" servers ......that had SMALL but power hungry hard drivers ,,,,,i think that 4x modern CDRs would use a lot less power than some of the old SCSI h/drives circa 1990s ...they used to have delay on start-up!

i bought one of those boxes and have 2x cdr,s and 2x slot in trays for spare h/drives,mainly for ghosting i also have an ide lead ,,,cut thru the roof of box connected to a slot in tray on one of my ide channels,(i use a promise card)

I dont think power would be a prob for 4 CDS

how many people do you know that have a CD+CDR+DVD (and a brace of h/drives) running off a 250w?

[Terrence]

True....but this guy is talking about running all of these burners at the same time, I see your point of CDR+DVD+HDD+HDD, but how often do you run them at a constant? I guess it could work, but it seems to me that there would need to be a bit more power.

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[freddy the fisherman]

QUOTE from a leading retailer:Lite-ON Home Page
----------------------------------------------LITON CDR---BURNPROOF---------
Data Transfer Rate
Recording 1800KB/s (12X) for CD-R

Re-writing 1500KB/s (10X) for CD-rw

Power Requirement
DC +5V?}5%(1.0A max) ; DC +12V?}10% (1.2A max)

1.2amp each .....is still a lot less than OLD scsi drives