CD Servers/Lots of Cd-Roms

[cremator]

I've been looking to build a cdrom server or mabey fill up some drive bays. But like all motherboards,mine only has 2 controllers,which means only 4 cd-roms.I'm not sure a raid card would work because it doesn't sound like it would. But I know you can have more than 4 Cd-roms because ive seen like 10 cd-rom cd servers. Can someone explain how they do it and what hardware they use? Much appreciated.

 

[bozo1]

For what you want to do, you just need to add IDE controllers which will let you put 4 on each controller. You could also go SCSI and have 7 drives connected to each SCSI controller.

For something more advanced:

Procom pretty much wrote the book on CD servers. We have a couple of 64 CD racks here.

There are a number of ways to do this depending on what you want.

If you just need like 7 drives, you can put 7 drives in an external chassis and connect them to a SCSI adapter in your PC. You have to use SCSI CD-ROMS or I think Procom has a chassis that converts SCSI to IDE so you can use cheaper IDE drives.

There are models that have 7 (or more) drives in a chassis with an integrated Ethernet card that you configure via telnet or a web browser then just connect to it from whatever workstation you want. (speed limited by your network speed of course)

The bigger models actually have a motherboard in there that does management for you, security, caching, etc.