Re: copying multiple DVDs
Roberto Verzola <[email protected]>
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Hi Mike, Thanks for this. Indeed, it's an interesting alternative. If you add up the drives, SATA cards, etc. needed to implement an 11-drive machine, not to mention the labor, the total cost wouldn't be too far from P35T, I suppose. Greetings, Obet Verzola Mike Tinsay wrote: > We have a unit here in our office that do just this. It has 11 drives, one source and 10 target. We bought it in greenhills, I believe, for about PhP35k. We use it for burning sales/marketing materials on CDs/DVDs. > > It's a turnkey solution. I'm not sure what OS it runs on. > > I merely mention it here to pose an alternative solution. > > > --- mike t. > > > Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> I'd like to build a Linux machine that will simultaneously burn several >> (say, 10) DVDs from an original ISO file. It is our DVD, so no copyright >> issue is involved here. >> >> I find burning from a single burner too slow, if I want to burn, say, >> 100 copies quickly. >> >> What I have in mind is to connect 10 burners to one machine. Then, to >> have 10 instances of K3B (or some similar disk-burning software, K3B is >> best though...) running, each instance using 1 of the 10 burners. >> >> Is this at all possible? The PCs I've seen have at most 4 SATA ports, >> and one of these is for the hard drive. That leaves only 3 for 3 burners. >> >> If I connect a DVD burner to SATA ports 2, 3, and 4 (#1 is used by the >> hard disk), will this idea work? >> >> How do I connect more than 4 SATA drives to a PC? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> Obet Verzola >> >> PS. To the curious: I work with farmers and we have a training video for >> farmers that we produce on demand, and sometimes we need to do so quickly. >> >> _________________________________________________ >> Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >> http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >> Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph >> > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > > > _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph