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Talal Itani

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello.

I need to program USB drives, in batch. Is there a tool for that?
Basically, a box, in which I plug-in multiple USB drives, and the box writes
to them.

Thanks,
Talal Itani
 
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mpm

Jan 1, 1970
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Hello.

I need to program USB drives, in batch. Is there a tool for that?
Basically, a box, in which I plug-in multiple USB drives, and the box writes
to them.

Thanks,
Talal Itani

I need the same thing for CompactFLASH cards.
If you happen upon that in your search, could you send it?
Thanks. -mpm
 
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Talal Itani

Jan 1, 1970
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I need the same thing for CompactFLASH cards.
If you happen upon that in your search, could you send it?
Thanks. -mpm

I have been researching for quite some time. There are some products on the
market, but they are in the thousands of Dollars. I wish somebody comes up
with a good and low-cost line. The market is there, the technology is not
expensive. If I find something, I will write you. Please do the same.
 
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Joel Kolstad

Jan 1, 1970
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Talal Itani said:
I have been researching for quite some time. There are some products on the
market, but they are in the thousands of Dollars.

That actually sounds quite inexpensive to me, given how small I'd imagine the
market is.
I wish somebody comes up with a good and low-cost line. The market is
there, the technology is not expensive.

The technology isn't, but paying for people to package it up and devliver it
to you in low quantities is.

Is this just something you want to do for fun, or is it part of a commercial
venture? In the case of the later, how you compared how much your product
price will have to change for the various options of automated batch copying
vs. just paying someone to sit in front of a PC with, say, 64 USB ports and
lots of time on their hands?
 
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Rich Grise

Jan 1, 1970
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That actually sounds quite inexpensive to me, given how small I'd imagine the
market is.


The technology isn't, but paying for people to package it up and devliver it
to you in low quantities is.

Is this just something you want to do for fun, or is it part of a commercial
venture? In the case of the later, how you compared how much your product
price will have to change for the various options of automated batch copying
vs. just paying someone to sit in front of a PC with, say, 64 USB ports and
lots of time on their hands?

But can you write to all 64 USBs simultaneously (or close enough so it
looks simultaneous)?

Thanks,
Rich
 
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Meat Plow

Jan 1, 1970
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But can you write to all 64 USBs simultaneously (or close enough so it
looks simultaneous)?

Thanks,
Rich

I would say it would be nearly impossible. I don't know of anything that
isn't proprietary hardware and software driven that would write to that
many drives. Most I've seen was in a Sun Enterprise 450 server that had 20
SCSI drives but there again, proprietary hardware and software, not just a
bunch of USB drives.
 
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Joel Kolstad

Jan 1, 1970
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Rich Grise said:
But can you write to all 64 USBs simultaneously (or close enough so it
looks simultaneous)?

Mmm... perhaps not. But I bet you could do 8, and cheap PCs are only what...
~$250/ea? 8 input KVM, 8 PCs, 64 USB ports... go to town!
 
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Nicholas Sherlock

Jan 1, 1970
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Talal said:
Hello.

I need to program USB drives, in batch. Is there a tool for that?
Basically, a box, in which I plug-in multiple USB drives, and the box writes
to them.

Just get a whole stack of USB 2.0 hubs, and a simple program which
copies files to all connected drives.

Cheers,
Nicholas Sherlock
 
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Jasen

Jan 1, 1970
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Just get a whole stack of USB 2.0 hubs, and a simple program which
copies files to all connected drives.

Each usb hub can only transmit to a single device at a time, many pcs only
have one or root hubs, so cascading hubs won't improve throughput much

Bye.
Jasen
 
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Talal Itani

Jan 1, 1970
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Nicholas Sherlock said:
Just get a whole stack of USB 2.0 hubs, and a simple program which copies
files to all connected drives.

Thank you. I think this is the way for me. I now have to find the program,
or find the person to write the program.

T.I.
 
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Talal Itani

Jan 1, 1970
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Jasen said:
Each usb hub can only transmit to a single device at a time, many pcs only
have one or root hubs, so cascading hubs won't improve throughput much

That is OK, because these drives are slow. So, the bottle neck is not the
hub, nor the usb, but the drives.
 
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Gary Tait

Jan 1, 1970
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Thank you. I think this is the way for me. I now have to find the
program, or find the person to write the program.

T.I.

Simple shell script.

Operator inserts drive.
System detects drive., calling file copy script.File copy script detects
presense of certian file, if present leave, if absent, copy and then
"eject" drive.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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Talal said:
Hello.

I need to program USB drives, in batch. Is there a tool for that?
Basically, a box, in which I plug-in multiple USB drives, and the box writes
to them.


<http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...CA07-3150&CMP=EMC-TIGEREMAIL&SRCCODE=WEM1427H>

Computer Associates is supplying some of their software on USB modules,
so they have to have a way to program them.


--
Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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Joel Kolstad

Jan 1, 1970
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Say Michael,

Michael A. Terrell said:
Computer Associates is supplying some of their software on USB modules,
so they have to have a way to program them.

Since you deal with a lot of machines that use freeware, what's your favorite
free anti-virus program? I've only used AVG, and it seems OK, but I suspect
you might have had more time to try out and evaluate some of the other options
out there.

---Joel
 
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Robert

Jan 1, 1970
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Joel Kolstad said:
Say Michael,



Since you deal with a lot of machines that use freeware, what's your
favorite free anti-virus program? I've only used AVG, and it seems OK,
but I suspect you might have had more time to try out and evaluate some of
the other options out there.

---Joel

Couldn't find a link to a free version of AVG the last time I looked at
their Web Site.

Robert
 
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David Brown

Jan 1, 1970
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Joel said:
Say Michael,



Since you deal with a lot of machines that use freeware, what's your favorite
free anti-virus program? I've only used AVG, and it seems OK, but I suspect
you might have had more time to try out and evaluate some of the other options
out there.

---Joel

The best free (free, not freeware) anti-virus program is clamav
(www.clamav.net), or the windows version from www.clamwin.com. It is
not an on-access scanner, so it needs a little discipline if you are a
high-risk windows user - but on the other hand, it does not slow your PC
with useless repeated checking of uninfected files. Use it to check
your incoming email, and to scan downloaded files before running them,
and perhaps for scheduled overnight scans of your programs.
 
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