Re: copying multiple DVDs

Roberto Verzola <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.philippine
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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.
>>
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