Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

I contacted them about the dexteris over a year ago and asked what the price was for one of them new. It was far more than I was willing to spend. That's about as far as I got.

-brendan

[kretch]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Yes.



I have not tested it, so I do not know.

-brendan

I just tested a G3 I got off of Ebay, and the driver does not work.
Brandan- is there a way of debugging this?

Thanks much
Kretch

[sredmyer]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Brendan,

Do your current drivers support the Rimage 8100 model duplicators? I believe these are four drive units and are of the Producer family.

Thanks,
Steve

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Do your current drivers support the Rimage 8100 model duplicators? I believe these are four drive units and are of the Producer family.

Nope, there are no scripts for these at this time.

-brendan

[fphredd]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-3-Burner-CD-DVD-200-Disc-Autoloader-Auto-Duplicator_W0QQitemZ120366705296QQihZ002QQcategoryZ31509QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742.m153.l1262#contact

Anyone ever hear of these?

or these?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827236078R&Tpk=Spartan%20Max%20D2%20Autoloader

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgzhP6DTImI&eurl=http://cgi.ebay.com/Ily-Spartan-D2-Disk-Autoloader-DVD-CD-Duplicator-NEW-NR_W0QQitemZ220367813471QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives

Used 'em?

Thanks!

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Anyone ever hear of these?

I see you're getting addicted too.

Note that none of those units are peripherals. And, in addition, they probably run off a dedicated duplication controller board instead of a full blown windows system.

You'd have to lobotomize them to make them into a peripheral robot (disconnect the duplication controller and make the drive and serial ports external).

And of course, you'd need to write a driver for them.

-brendan

[fphredd]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Same song for both types?

This MFD is killin' me... :vmad:

[darkbane]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hi Everyone

Regardint the Rimage DTP series, I'm a bit stuck at finding what's the command it uses to query the sensor beneath the picker arm.
It is used to detect if there's disk or not of course.
The calibration tool (scsi) is able to use it but I haven't been able to find any serial command for it.. can someone please help?
I know most of the command set has been dumped monitoring the serial communication of a newer rimage unit, so it should be a know command afterall..

Many thanks!

EDIT: Meanwhile, here's what my unit says at boot:

Cedar V: 4.0a4.00A ids0058
Init steps: 0100
Print steps: 00c1
Cleaner steps: 0609
Reject steps: 073b
Rec4 steps: 1322
Rec3 steps: 1007
Rec2 steps: 0ce9
Rec1 steps: 09f1
Top hop steps: 1599
Bot hop steps: 1a1d
Energ steps: 00a0
10 Disk Hop steps: 19c5
Disk thickness steps: 0058


Cedar Technologies
Copyright 1999
CD-R Publisher
S/W version: 4.00A ids
SCSI ID: 2

Again, thanks!

[darkbane]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

@Bhoar

It seems that the main differ ence between the SCSI and FW version of DTPs is the firmware version.

basically, the SCSI one does not seem to output return codes via serial but via SCSI and that's all.

If you could borrow me the two eeproms on your Firewire board, I would dump them so everyone with a scsi dtp could simply burn a newer rom for his DTP and convert it to a serial/FW enabled unit.

I know your units are buried deep in your basement, but if you could find the time (no hurry of course) of bringing out one of them, everyone with a scsi unit would benefit of your effort

I would pay for all expenses of course.

Thanks!

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Ok, email me your contact info. Perhaps we can pursue that solution.

-brendan

[asayler]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Anyone have one of the 100-disc Aleratec RoboRacer LS, Recordex RX-100PC, Dexpreso DEX1000, CDBox or "Boozer" devices they'd like to try with the batch ripper? I have a test driver available.

-brendan

Hi Brendan,

We just bought a new Recordex Rx-100PC and would love to try out the test driver. Can you send it to me?

-Andy

P.S. The Recordex RX-100PC has only a USB port on the outside. Is this a problem? Do I need to case hack it to get at an external serial port? Is there a way to use the USB with the driver?

[bhoar]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hi Brendan,

We just bought a new Recordex Rx-100PC and would love to try out the test driver. Can you send it to me?

-Andy

P.S. The Recordex RX-100PC has only a USB port on the outside. Is this a problem? Do I need to case hack it to get at an external serial port? Is there a way to use the USB with the driver?

Andy,

I'm out of town (in Sicily on vacation) this week, so responses might be a bit slow.

This USB device presents itself to the host as a USB hub with two child devices (a USB->ATA bridge and a USB->serial adapter). No physical modifications necessary, it works as a standard serial-connected robot.

The driver is not free of charge, I'll contact you via email about specifics.

-brendan

[fphredd]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Andy,

I'm out of town (in Sicily on vacation) this week

-brendan

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeet! Enjoy!
:D

[sonyman]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

Hello Brendan,
ist the old Mediaform CD 3702 robotic supportet? (serial connected)
The best on this unit is the vacuum Picker!

Thanks
Thanks BASTIAN

[fphredd]

Re: Discussion of Automated CD Loaders

OK Brendan, more issues with the MF Digital (not driver related), so the search may continue...

Didn't find any mention of these anywhere, will they work??

http://www.vinpowerdigital.com/Products/Autoloaders/CatPage/AutoloaderCategory.asp

thnx