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Among other reasons, two issues that led to me putting aside selling the 50-disc Kodak Kiosk robots were:
1) My executable files for the loaders aren't able to get the rights necessary to open the serial port and perform SPT transactions with the optical drives without the permission dialog under Vista and Windows 7.
2) Windows Vista and Windows 7 both have USB Mass Storage drivers that interact badly with the particular USB<->ATAPI bridge and Teac drive combination in the unit. The summary result is that it can take 30s to 5 minutes for a disc to be recognized, which makes robotic ripping slow with these units on anything but XP (or Windows 7 in XP Mode).
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The temporary workaround for *1 is to run the Batch Ripper and the Batch Ripper Configuration shortcuts as an Administrator using the right-click "Run As Administrator..." option. You can also change the shortcut so that this option is always used by modifying the shortcut properties. Now each time you run the batch ripper or batch ripper config, you'll need to affirm the administrator level access, but that's just once per session. Then the loader commands inherit the Higher Administrator credentials from the running batch ripper and can directly address the serial port and optical drives.
I may have come up with a solution to issue *2 and I am testing some replacement bridge boards this week to make sure they work well with all three operating systems.
Brendan
1) My executable files for the loaders aren't able to get the rights necessary to open the serial port and perform SPT transactions with the optical drives without the permission dialog under Vista and Windows 7.
2) Windows Vista and Windows 7 both have USB Mass Storage drivers that interact badly with the particular USB<->ATAPI bridge and Teac drive combination in the unit. The summary result is that it can take 30s to 5 minutes for a disc to be recognized, which makes robotic ripping slow with these units on anything but XP (or Windows 7 in XP Mode).
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The temporary workaround for *1 is to run the Batch Ripper and the Batch Ripper Configuration shortcuts as an Administrator using the right-click "Run As Administrator..." option. You can also change the shortcut so that this option is always used by modifying the shortcut properties. Now each time you run the batch ripper or batch ripper config, you'll need to affirm the administrator level access, but that's just once per session. Then the loader commands inherit the Higher Administrator credentials from the running batch ripper and can directly address the serial port and optical drives.
I may have come up with a solution to issue *2 and I am testing some replacement bridge boards this week to make sure they work well with all three operating systems.
Brendan