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Mediaform 5916 and CRD-BP4 Drives
Hello group,
I am need of three replacement drives for a Mediaform 5916 duplicator. Basically, it's a off the shelf PC built with 16 Sanyo CRD-BP4 slaves. This duplicator has seen much use. It's currently made over 70,000 copies. Recently three of the drives have gone kaput. Note, these drives are not connected to the same SCSI controller. Reading discs are no problem for these drives, they just fail to write. The Sanyo CDR-BP4 drives in the tower have been branded my Mediaform as "Smartdrives". The smartdrives as Mediaform calls them, have the firmware revision "m28". I have tried a generic Sanyo drive with firmware 4.32. The duplicator was unable to read or write from the drive. My assumption is all drives must have the same firmware. I have no way of telling what relation the Mediaform revision alpha-numeric codes have with the Sanyo revision numbers. I did some searching on google and noticed Sanyo had released a firmware revision 4.28 early in the drive's history. Does the M in Mediaform's code stand for 4? So M=4, N=5, etc..? If anyone has information I would be very grateful. Also if anyone has a new or rarely used Sanyo CRD-BP4 scsi drive they would like to sell, please let me know ASAP! |
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I have one of these units for sale.It has 16 drives in it.They are 8X or 12X.They are not branded smartdrive 2.These are the drives they used before branding them.I think they are the same thing. I am selling it for $1000 USD.You can use it for parts.It will be listed on ebay shortly if you are interrested. I also have a mediaform director and a mediaform 3706p ,both are automated.The director has smartdrive 2 in it ,they are 8X.They also come with rimage thermal printer stands to automate the printing process. All are for sale.Mediaform sold the replacement drives for $400 to $600 depending on what you needed. Crazy Anj wrote in message ... Hello group, I am need of three replacement drives for a Mediaform 5916 duplicator. Basically, it's a off the shelf PC built with 16 Sanyo CRD-BP4 slaves. This duplicator has seen much use. It's currently made over 70,000 copies. Recently three of the drives have gone kaput. Note, these drives are not connected to the same SCSI controller. Reading discs are no problem for these drives, they just fail to write. The Sanyo CDR-BP4 drives in the tower have been branded my Mediaform as "Smartdrives". The smartdrives as Mediaform calls them, have the firmware revision "m28". I have tried a generic Sanyo drive with firmware 4.32. The duplicator was unable to read or write from the drive. My assumption is all drives must have the same firmware. I have no way of telling what relation the Mediaform revision alpha-numeric codes have with the Sanyo revision numbers. I did some searching on google and noticed Sanyo had released a firmware revision 4.28 early in the drive's history. Does the M in Mediaform's code stand for 4? So M=4, N=5, etc..? If anyone has information I would be very grateful. Also if anyone has a new or rarely used Sanyo CRD-BP4 scsi drive they would like to sell, please let me know ASAP! |
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Forgot to mention.....I am in Vancouver Canada.
Crazy Anj wrote in message ... Hello group, I am need of three replacement drives for a Mediaform 5916 duplicator. Basically, it's a off the shelf PC built with 16 Sanyo CRD-BP4 slaves. This duplicator has seen much use. It's currently made over 70,000 copies. Recently three of the drives have gone kaput. Note, these drives are not connected to the same SCSI controller. Reading discs are no problem for these drives, they just fail to write. The Sanyo CDR-BP4 drives in the tower have been branded my Mediaform as "Smartdrives". The smartdrives as Mediaform calls them, have the firmware revision "m28". I have tried a generic Sanyo drive with firmware 4.32. The duplicator was unable to read or write from the drive. My assumption is all drives must have the same firmware. I have no way of telling what relation the Mediaform revision alpha-numeric codes have with the Sanyo revision numbers. I did some searching on google and noticed Sanyo had released a firmware revision 4.28 early in the drive's history. Does the M in Mediaform's code stand for 4? So M=4, N=5, etc..? If anyone has information I would be very grateful. Also if anyone has a new or rarely used Sanyo CRD-BP4 scsi drive they would like to sell, please let me know ASAP! |
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