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!

Hi
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!

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!