I have a tower, PIII 450, 196MB, 1 DVD mastr IDE 0, 3 Pioneer 104s on rest of IDE (jumperd M/S M/S properly) Record now max 4.5, HD on SCSI alone (works great) UDMA2 on ALL DVD DRIVES Firmware updates 1.40 on DVRs (did that today) set to min. speed for record. Try to record to 3 drives starts ok then error on both slave drives will record to master on IDE1 while reading from DVD mastr IDE 0. We chose record now max to be able to acccomplish this. they won't discuss this over there phone. Help please. Is this even possible on IDE? My friend says it worked the first time and that was it.( I wasn,t there)I will attach screen shot tomm.
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I would reckon that the ROM & DVDR all need to be on seperate IDE to get this to work.
However really for this sort of thing U need a copy box!!!
However really for this sort of thing U need a copy box!!!
You simply cannot use two recorders on the same IDE channel... IDE commandset does not have the advanced synchronization and disconnect SCSI commands. Even for SCSI Padus which is an authority on mass duplication does not recommend putting more than two burners on the same bus.
You can use a PCI IDE controller which can handle Atapi devices properly (e.g. Acard), or get from Acard (again) the Atapi2SCSI converters, which will allow you hooking your devices to a SCSI bus. 3 of them on a 40M SCSI bus should do OK. A minor point is that those converters are not terribly cheap... (about 70$ each).
You can use a PCI IDE controller which can handle Atapi devices properly (e.g. Acard), or get from Acard (again) the Atapi2SCSI converters, which will allow you hooking your devices to a SCSI bus. 3 of them on a 40M SCSI bus should do OK. A minor point is that those converters are not terribly cheap... (about 70$ each).
A RAID card will not help since all recent controllers don´t handle optical drives they´re for hd only, in any case if you want to try get an IDE controller (no RAID) to set each drive alone in a channel, an IDE controller should cost $60us to $90us.
I'm getting there, but still confused alittle. Scarecrow, nice confirmation to what I told my customer day 1. IDE functions need to be independant.
Will the SCSI chain handle the 3 DVRs as per PAGUS or would it be easier to just put in the two IDE contr. cards? Or get IDE2 scsi ADAPTERS I could drop the DVRs on with the existing SCSI HD.
Will the SCSI chain handle the 3 DVRs as per PAGUS or would it be easier to just put in the two IDE contr. cards? Or get IDE2 scsi ADAPTERS I could drop the DVRs on with the existing SCSI HD.
It's difficult to give the best advice, financially-wise, but if I ever wanted to build a CD/DVD duplicator on my puter I would rather go SCSI... and much more so in your case, where the machine is rather old/anhaemic. An IDE controller does it's own processing, but nevertheless eats some CPU cycles, while a good SCSI controller uses very little resources.
Padus suggests 2 burners per SCSI bus, but I've used 3 12X CD-RW in the past (Plexwriter 12/10/32S) on a silly Celeron 333/128MB box, and I was able to burn in all of them without any issues (with an older Discjuggler version). The SCSI card was a lame Adaptec 2930CU (just 20M/sec max.).
Padus suggests 2 burners per SCSI bus, but I've used 3 12X CD-RW in the past (Plexwriter 12/10/32S) on a silly Celeron 333/128MB box, and I was able to burn in all of them without any issues (with an older Discjuggler version). The SCSI card was a lame Adaptec 2930CU (just 20M/sec max.).