We have a unit here in our office that do just this. It has 11 drives, one source and 10 target. We bought it in greenhills, I believe, for about PhP35k. We use it for burning sales/marketing materials on CDs/DVDs.
It's a turnkey solution. I'm not sure what OS it runs on. I merely mention it here to pose an alternative solution. --- mike t. Roberto Verzola <[email protected]> wrote: >I'd like to build a Linux machine that will simultaneously burn several >(say, 10) DVDs from an original ISO file. It is our DVD, so no copyright >issue is involved here. > >I find burning from a single burner too slow, if I want to burn, say, >100 copies quickly. > >What I have in mind is to connect 10 burners to one machine. Then, to >have 10 instances of K3B (or some similar disk-burning software, K3B is >best though...) running, each instance using 1 of the 10 burners. > >Is this at all possible? The PCs I've seen have at most 4 SATA ports, >and one of these is for the hard drive. That leaves only 3 for 3 burners. > >If I connect a DVD burner to SATA ports 2, 3, and 4 (#1 is used by the >hard disk), will this idea work? > >How do I connect more than 4 SATA drives to a PC? > >Thanks in advance, > >Obet Verzola > >PS. To the curious: I work with farmers and we have a training video for >farmers that we produce on demand, and sometimes we need to do so quickly. > >_________________________________________________ >Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List >http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug >Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
