On 13 Aug 00, at 1:18, Bassem Fahmy wrote:

> I heard an strange suggestions to cut the costs of copy many CDs
> for a program publish from an Computer Company .. better than make
> the copy in company work in that
>
> The idea is.. To plug in the computer .. You can say 4 CD burn
> drivers in one fast computer have SCSII .. then you go to the Burn
> program you use and ask to copy from 1 ordinary CD to 4 Burn CDs
> drivers in one time are plugged in the fast computer ..
>
> so this can save money and time ..
>
> The plan to copy about 100,000 CD
>
> whats every one think in this Magic idea ..
>
> Sorry if you find it silly,
>
> Bsum ..

  I don't think it's list policy to post the same message to *both*
PCSOFT and PCBUILD.

  I'm pretty sure it's not list policy to support the making of
illegal copies ("piracy"); it's not entirely clear whether this is
your intention.

  I don't believe this idea will work.  It's similar to RAID
"mirroring" or "duplexing" of hard drives, but burning CDs is a
process which is much more sensitive to timing issues than just
writing to a hard drive is.

  I'm sure that something along this line is probably what the
companies that perform CD duplication for publishers use -- but I
don't think it is built out of standard PC componenets, and probably
writes many more than 4 copies at a time.

David G

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