On Thu, 17 Jul 2003, Tracy LCpl Derek E wrote: > I needing some assistance picking out a cd-duplication system and was > wondering if any net-admins or users have had any experience/recommendations > with these systems. I am looking for a duplication system that is around > 1500 that can make identical copies of DVD DVD-R DVD-RW CD-R CD-RW's. > Including protected cd's. Now I am not a pirating fool I work for the USMC > and we are needing the capabilities to burn copies to hand out to our > network administrators throughout the base. Any help and recommendations > will be helpful. Thank You for your time.
I've found having two drives (one cd, one cdrw - or in your case above, one dvd, one dvd-rw) with cdrecord to be just fine. Make an alias or one-line script to do the copying (or use any of the graphical front-ends). The line on my Debian system is: cdrecord -v -eject speed=8 dev=1,1,0 -isosize /dev/hdd Of course, you won't be able to copy dual-layer dvd's directly. I recommend reading the cd-writing howto. A possibility is to get a good size hard drive on which you can store cd/dvd images, and a number of dvd-rw drives so you can make several discs simultaneously. Unless you get scsi drives (which I don't think they make scsi dvd-rw's yet), you should not put more than one drive per IDE chain, or you'll probably end up burning a lot of coasters. Putting images on the hard drive also protects against coasters in case of a bad source cd. -- Marshal Newrock, Simon's Rock College of Bard Caution: product may be hot after heating -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
