Microtech Xpress XL Loader Help

[ghibliss]

I am happy to report that after spending a great deal of time on developing the loader for the Microtech Xpress XL duplicator we have finally been able to get it to work running with all 12 drives smoothly with no handling errors at all. I will be performing a full test to rip 650 discs (the Microtech Xpress XL's capacity) with the machine soon. The expected throughput using 12 drives should be between 130 and 150 discs per hour. The estimate is based on getting 65-75 discs per hour ripped using my MF Digital machine which has 6 drives. The loading and unloading times are comparable between the two machines and the ripping itself varies only based on the individual discs being ripped.

As I occasionally get very large cd libraries to rip that are a few thousand cd's or more this should make my work much more efficient being able to potentially rip 1,000 CDs in 6.5-7.5 hours!

[ghibliss]

Spoon,

After completing my project on the Microtech machine yesterday and getting everything working ie all 12 drives load/unload rip and run continuously in Batch Ripper an issue cropped up mysteriously which I do not know how to fix. I went to do some additional testing and now batch ripper will load the CD's however it does not appear to be receiving the unload command at this time on any of the drives. I tried testing using the batch ripper configuration utility and using the test function can load only. Trying to use the unload test returns only the spinning blue windows ball which goes forever without providing a debug list to check. I also tested using a protocol analyzer which verifies that there appears to be a communication error of some sort as dbpoweramp is not sending the unload command.

I have checked all of the Windows folders and decided to update/replace the unload.exe with a new one just to see if it could have become corrupted which it was not. I have also replaced the unload command line code in the configuration folder to see if that was corrupted and it was not.

I checked in Task Manager and looked in the open processes and the unload.exe is not open or anything else related to dbpoweramp. I have reinstalled dbpoweramp and batch ripper and the issue is still present. Is there anything that you can point me to check in the dbpoweramp files that might cause an error like this?

I can confirm that these same functions presently work testing with the Microtech Test Utility which allows me to open/close drive drawers, load/unload discs from any spindle to any drive.

Please give me your thoughts on what I should check to get the unload function repaired.

Regards,

[Spoon]

Check the command line if added anything, try to simplify the unload command line as a test, and replace it by something which just popups up a msg when run.

[ghibliss]

I have everything working correctly again. Thanks for your reply!
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