CD duplicatior

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What is the difference in having a designated PC with multiple CD-RW drives
to use as a CD Duplicator versus a dedicator CD Duplicator?

I have a PC that I want to put 2 52X CD-RW drives and 2 DVD Writers and use
as a Duplicator. Can someone tell me if there is a issue with doing this.
Could I make simultaneous CD-R burns on all 4 drives using this setup. PC
has 1 GB RAM and XP 2400+ Processor.

Brian
 
The MB I have installed does not have one installed, is that really
necessary? What does that buy me?
 
Brian said:
What is the difference in having a designated PC with multiple CD-RW
drives to use as a CD Duplicator versus a dedicator CD Duplicator?

I have a PC that I want to put 2 52X CD-RW drives and 2 DVD Writers
and use as a Duplicator. Can someone tell me if there is a issue
with doing this. Could I make simultaneous CD-R burns on all 4 drives
using this setup. PC has 1 GB RAM and XP 2400+ Processor.

Brian
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Burning to 4 drives at once might just stress the system. 2 at once is
fine. I surpose you could try it and see. If it fails can't you just rip
the burners out and put them in a standalone duplicator? I don't know alot
about those duplicators but I thought you could get a "barebones" one and
add your own drives.
 
Brian said:
The MB I have installed does not have one installed, is that really
necessary? What does that buy me?
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If you fill up the 4 IDE ports with CD drives what are you going to boot from?
 
Well, acually yes, I have a 133 controller card that I was going to use that
would allow me to run each item on it's own channel except for one of the
CDRW, that would have to run as a slave item.
 
cowboyz said:
Burning to 4 drives at once might just stress the system. 2 at once is
fine. I surpose you could try it and see. If it fails can't you just rip
the burners out and put them in a standalone duplicator? I don't know alot
about those duplicators but I thought you could get a "barebones" one and
add your own drives.
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In any event, you'll probably NEED to run GNU/Linux, if you want to burn
CD/DVDs on ALL OF YOUR NETWORKED COMPUTERS! AND, if don't want a bunch
of COASTERS!!! We have no need for expensive duplicators, in that we
have 28 systems on the network, and, 10 have high speed CD burners,
while all of them run Debian Linux, installed in about 20 minutes,
each,from the Knoppix CD, http://knopper.net/knoppix (yes, it is a
second OS on three of our XP machines! Linux includes the QTparted
partioning program, that far surpasses PM-8, AND, QTParted is FREE!)

Here is the program that lets you write CD/DVDs over your network, on
multiple machines!!!

"webCDwriter can be used to make the CD- and DVD-writer(s) connected to
a Linux box available to all users in your network. It consists of the
server CDWserver and the clients webCDcreator and rcdrecord. CDWserver
stores the files transmitted by the clients, reserves the CD-writer and
controls the CD-writer using cdrecord. webCDcreator is a Java applet
that runs within your browser or by Java Web Start, assists you when
putting together a CD, and transmits the files. Finally rcdrecord is a
command line client that tries to offer the functionality of cdrecord
over the network with full multi-user support."

http://freshmeat.net/projects/webcdwriter/
 
Brian said:
Well, acually yes, I have a 133 controller card that I was going to use that
would allow me to run each item on it's own channel except for one of the
CDRW, that would have to run as a slave item.
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I see
 
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