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General Category => Software => Topic started by: rippleffect on April 15, 2003, 11:26:31 PM

Title: Ejecting Multi-cd-drive Via Script
Post by: rippleffect on April 15, 2003, 11:26:31 PM
I have a selfmade duplicator that has 10 burners in 1 pc. whenever i need to duplicate hundreds of CD's, it is tedious, boring and consumes time to push each drives eject button. I would like to know if there is a way to make a executable to eject all my cd drives at once. does anyone know how?
Title: Ejecting Multi-cd-drive Via Script
Post by: morpherex on April 16, 2003, 12:26:31 PM
http://morpherex.no-ip.com:81/cd_eject.vbs (http://\"http://morpherex.no-ip.com:81/cd_eject.vbs\")

This will eject ALL CD drives.

Just double click it.  If you wanna see how it's made just open it up with notpad or something.
Title: Ejecting Multi-cd-drive Via Script
Post by: Ratman_ab on April 17, 2003, 12:47:55 PM
Rippleeffect

Just curious about the duplicator you made - I am looking for something similar for my church to duplicate audio recordings of the sunday morning service. Any details you can provide re hardware and sfw used would be greatly appreciated. The commercial duplicators are beyond our budget at present.

Thanks
Title: Ejecting Multi-cd-drive Via Script
Post by: Space Between on April 25, 2003, 03:02:45 AM
Ok on the eject..i guess that .vbs will work.
you could also get ahold of eject.exe and use that
it is as simple as    EJECT h: or whatever your letter is.

im not sure if what that .vbs does...callshell ???

anyways on the dupicator....you can build one of those things
n/p.  REAL easy. I dont have 10 burners but you could buy a
old ATX tower and put them in it. OR you could run them via
pin cable out of the box /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' /> yeh its dirtybut would work /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />

To get 10 drives in a compuer is really hard to do without a custom
case. You would have to buy a 10-bay box which usually a 10-bay
box is 6     5 1/2's    and    4    3 1/4's ...so where he got his box is
a mystery to me ...atleast for cheap.

I would personally buy a 8-bay with 6 5 1/4's up top. My box is like
65usd i think. Anyways you could carve out the bottom half fairly easy.
It would take sawing it...but you could trim it up finely with some fine
sand paper and to be honest work it out. Work it out to the point where
you thought it came like that :-).  Of course you would need to have
a hdd on primary/master with all that. I wouldnt put anything else on
the bus either.  So you would need 2 controller cards that are like 20usd
a piece...better ones i would get and pay like a total of 80usd for them.

Ok look check it...
http://www.aaronix.com/catalog/product_inf...products_id/491 (http://\"http://www.aaronix.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/22_36/products_id/491\")

that thing would cut it. You would need the power supplies...like 2 350's i would say. Or you could swing it with 2x300 watt's ...600watts would do it.

It would just fit too...almost perfectly :-)...of course you need the 10 burners and that would cost like 500usd atleast.   Of course you need a fast computer too with atleast 512ram...all in all your looking at like a 900-1000usd project.   On the good side of that you get all kinds of room for improvement vs. those's built to burn so called \"duplicators\".  Those thing have very little room for improvement.

I'd say you could do it for 900usd...NO LESS!!.

If you wanted to buy the software to do it ...well either run linux and find some miracle program that is free to burn acurately 10 cd's at one time....or you could dish out like the 500usd for discjuggler's autoloader edition which is nicer for autoloaders but just as nice for duplicators. Plus it's got the azz to not burn coasters. Just make sure enable the buffer underrun prevention to actually say \"Enabled\" vs. its default i believe of \"Only Enabled for single drive\" or something like that.

Dude if you do it post some .pic's of it...be nice to see :-)
Title: Ejecting Multi-cd-drive Via Script
Post by: Miss_Me on July 12, 2005, 03:09:35 PM
Seems like it would be just as easy to save a little to buy a duplicator from someone like Microboards and get it without all the hassle and with some Technical Support. IMHO /smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':)\' />