Primera Composer Pro
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| Posted by | Jan Willem |
| Posted on | 24/01/02 17:13 |
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The package:
The Primera composer pro unit arrived in several secure packed cardboard boxes, which offered more than enough protection for the fragile elements of the duplicator.
Since it had survived a direct transport from the US to Europe with air-transport we can assume that the packaging material is worth keeping it stockpiled in a free place.
It is ofcourse highly recommended (not to say necessarily) that the packaging is to be re-used when transporting the composer from one place to another. It offers a secure protection to all possible damage and is shock absorbing.
When packing things out it seemed clear that this Composer is not a stand-alone duplicator but has to be attached to a PC.
To do this Primera has chosen for a SCSI-card from Initio, a firewire-connection should also be available offering even more possibilities to upgrade the drives. Since Fire-wire is not yet supported by all operating systems and is not usable on some older motherboards, the most common sold version is still the scsi-version.
It is to notice that a firewire connection has the advantages of being hot-swappable and supporting writers up to 24x, whereas the SCSI-version is relying on a secure (not too long) connection with the PC, and is limited up to 16x writing.
Primera has chosen for the Initio 9090U, a PCI ultra-scsi host adapter to arrange stable traffic between the Composer and the PC.
We did not encounter any problems when installing the scsi adapter on our PC. It fitted into a free PCI-slot and Windows automatically detected the card. The supplied driver did the rest of the job.
Our system manager is showing a perfect connection.
Once our host PC had been modified for using the composerPro, we could further assemble the actual duplicator and the printing unit.
Here we can notice two big separated parts :
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Posted by mbasidiq on Saturday 09 February 2002 02:45
so i take it that you can not copy safe disk 1 or 2 discs with this product........When will we see a product that can do something like that......That would be awsome.
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