hrrmm i have a scinet cd-rom tower that i want to convert to a cd-burning tower...its all scsi and the tower actually has hard drive motherboard and some form of novell netware/dos on it... 7 12x pioneer scsi cd-roms in a nice case...

anyway...I was wondering how I would go about converting this over to a burning tower... (if this involves just not even using the seperate os) thats fine too... so yeah... anybody know how to do this...any guides to doing this? also before i do something like this... I want to know if there is any burning program thats capable of making iso copies tomultiple(atleast 7 I'm guessing) scsi cds at a time... and not burning the same iso to each cd-rw but actually burning say 6-7 different files at one time, one to each burner... if it can even handle 3-4 at a time that would be fine too...I could just keep the other cd-roms as readers on the tower...

thanks in advance to anybody thats able to help me out with this project..


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Sounds like you're pushing runny manure up hill with a pointy stick M8.
What was the CDROM tower used for in the first place?. If it was for a Novell server then it may have a custom motherboard built specifically for that application.

If you can get an ID off of the motherboard do a search on the 'net to find out what it can be used for.

It was just used as a server, there isn't any software on there besides just to access the drives...its running as a novell server currently.

It could be possible but you going to need a Novel Server expert to tell you for sure. To me the problems you face are what software do you need on the PC/Server to access the CDROM tower. Also I'm not sure how the ASPI layer will react to the tower. ASPIs are tricky things, considering Adaptec brought out a 'modified' ASPI in response to Microsoft refusing to do a proper job with it. So in the best circumstances an ASPI is a bit of a patch for PCs. So as I said who knows how it will react to the tower's controller card/ motherboard.

It may be safer to just use the Towers bays and power supply, if you're buying multiple burners then going SCSI is probably a little easier (although more expensive than IDE) as you can support 32 (?) SCSI devices with one SCSI card. Have the SCSI card in the PC and run the SCSI cable out to the CDROM tower & your burners.