Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

[sredmyer]

Re: bhoar...Is this device supported?

I have a couple of these old horses stowed in the basement, but haven't tested them with the batch ripper. If I remember correctly, these are self-contained duplicators running an embedded DOS environment, headless. If you wanted to get it to work, you'd need to convert these into a peripheral for a windows machine, which means externalizing the serial connection to the robot controller and adding bridge boards for all the drives. They are probably SCSI drives, so you'd probably also need to upgrade all the drives as well to physically compatible ones. And finally, the picker is a bit old school and was developed when drives, or more specifically trays, were heavier duty than contemporary drives are...it comes down a bit hard on the trays before the tray detect switch tells the motor to stop.

With that said, it probably works with my One-bank/multiple-drives driver, but note that is not free (it is priced per drive).

-brendan

Sounds like a bit more in depth than I care to go with it. So I guess I will just skip this one.

Thanks for the info,

[bhoar]

Re: bhoar...Is this device supported?

Is the Mediatechnics model "Impact dp-400" supported by the Batch Ripper using your drivers? If so what is your opinion of this particular device as a automated ripper?

I have a couple of these old horses stowed in the basement, but haven't tested them with the batch ripper. If I remember correctly, these are self-contained duplicators running an embedded DOS environment, headless. If you wanted to get it to work, you'd need to convert these into a peripheral for a windows machine, which means externalizing the serial connection to the robot controller and adding bridge boards for all the drives. They are probably SCSI drives, so you'd probably also need to upgrade all the drives as well to physically compatible ones. And finally, the picker is a bit old school and was developed when drives, or more specifically trays, were heavier duty than contemporary drives are...it comes down a bit hard on the trays before the tray detect switch tells the motor to stop.

With that said, it probably works with my One-bank/multiple-drives driver, but note that is not free (it is priced per drive).

-brendan

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I did that, but Unload is still hanging.

Well, I'm out of ideas. It was working and now it isn't. Start from scratch on another machine?

-brendan

[sredmyer]

bhoar...Is this device supported?

Brendan,

Is the Mediatechnics model "Impact dp-400" supported by the Batch Ripper using your drivers? If so what is your opinion of this particular device as a automated ripper?

Thanks,

[computer-girl]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I did that, but Unload is still hanging.

When the drive letters got incorrectly mapped, did you go into the batch ripper configuration screen, click Edit on the incorrectly Configured Drives and then click Set Drive as Unconfigured? That's how you fix that problem.

-brendan

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

When the drive letters got incorrectly mapped, did you go into the batch ripper configuration screen, click Edit on the incorrectly Configured Drives and then click Set Drive as Unconfigured? That's how you fix that problem.

-brendan

[computer-girl]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Are you sure it's still on the same serial port it was
before or the same one you have the batch ripper configured to?

Yes

Are you sure you have the right drive letter?

No. I believe that the drive letter changed because after I added the PX-230A, BR thought that it was the it was the Kodak Kiosk 50 although I had configured the Teac as the Kodak Kiosk.

Are you sure you didn't put a typo into one or more of the five command lines?

Typos are always possible. Without a way to verify, a clean install is all I know to do to try to get it right.

Right now, I have uninstalled dbpoweramp but I have all of the other stuff hanging around. I'm trying not to reload my entire system at this time.

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Are you sure it's still on the same serial port it was before or the same one you have the batch ripper configured to?
Are you sure you have the right drive letter?
Are you sure you didn't put a typo into one or more of the five command lines?

-brendan

[computer-girl]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

That did not work for me. I uninstalled dbpoweramp, but of course, there is all kinds off stuff left in C:\Program Files\Illustrate\dBpoweramp, including batch ripper. How can I cleanly uninstall all of the apps associated with dbpoweramp, including batch ripper from all of the folders and in the registry so that I can do a clean re-install?

That temp file is dbpoweramp's, not the kodak driver's.

Ok, then go here: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

And delete all files that start with "ULCLI-". And then reboot.

Note: in the path above replace "Administrator" with your current user name, if different.

If it still doesn't work, then your setup is wrong somewhere.

-brendan

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I did this but it is still hanging. There is still a disc in the drive and the temp file is still dBB22.tmp after several attempts at manual unloading.

That temp file is dbpoweramp's, not the kodak driver's.

Ok, then go here: C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Local Settings\Temp

And delete all files that start with "ULCLI-". And then reboot.

Note: in the path above replace "Administrator" with your current user name, if different.

If it still doesn't work, then your setup is wrong somewhere.

-brendan

[computer-girl]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I did this but it is still hanging. There is still a disc in the drive and the temp file is still dBB22.tmp after several attempts at manual unloading.

Reboot, run post-batch.

-brendan

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I tried it, but BR is stuck in Pre-Batch Action & I can't end the ripping. Also, In BC, the unload still hangs. Should I uninstall and re-install the applications?

Reboot, run post-batch.

-brendan

[computer-girl]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I tried it, but BR is stuck in Pre-Batch Action & I can't end the ripping. Also, In BC, the unload still hangs. Should I uninstall and re-install the applications?

1. Batch Ripper Configuration.
2. Click the [Edit] button next to your configured drive.
3. On the fifth command line "Post-Batch CLI", to the right, there is a [Test] button. Click it.
4. At the top of the new window, click the Start Test button.
5. Click Close.
6. Click Configure Drive.
7. Click OK.

-brendan

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

How exactly do you do this?

1. Batch Ripper Configuration.
2. Click the [Edit] button next to your configured drive.
3. On the fifth command line "Post-Batch CLI", to the right, there is a [Test] button. Click it.
4. At the top of the new window, click the Start Test button.
5. Click Close.
6. Click Configure Drive.
7. Click OK.

-brendan

[computer-girl]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

How exactly do you do this?

3. Run the post-load manually, you probably have some of the temporary files showing an in-progress rip. This will clear things out.

-brendan