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After you have completed these steps, the Input Spindle should be loaded
in the order shown in Figure 1-6:
When you start the copy operation, the robotic arm will pick up discs from
the Input Spindle and place them into the drives. If any of the discs in the
drives contains data, (in this case, that would be the first disc, Master A),
the autoloader will copy the entire content of this disc (Master A) onto the
internal hard drive while simultaneously copying to all of the blank discs in
the remaining writer drives.
Once the copy process is completed, Master disc A and the successfully
copied discs will be removed from the drives and dropped on to the Output
Spindle. At the same time, the system will pick up the next discs from the
input bin and place them in the corresponding writer drive(s). Then the
copying process will start over again from the hard drive.
If a new master is detected (in this case, it would be the Master B), the
autoloader will complete the previous job, unload the copied discs, and fill
the drive tray(s) with blank discs for the next job.
The robotic arm will continue to load media into the drive(s) as the duplicated discs are
placed in the Output Spindle. Once a drive (any drive) detects another Master disc, the
same process is repeated for the new Master disc.
Master A
5 Blank discs for
Master A
Master B
6 Blank discs for
Master B
Master C
7 Blank discs for
Master C
Figure 1-6
The Order of Discs
in MM mode
