User guide

PowerSoftware. With this method the media must be formatted with a Windows-compatible file
system (currently NTFS or FAT). This option allows single files or directories to be copied to the
media and also allow serialization using an external program.
The media are processed sequentially with this method, since only one medium can be mapped to
a logical drive letter at the same time on each IQ CopyStation. All other CopyStation hardware will
process the mapping operation in a parallel manner.
The two methods can be combined. For example, an image can be copied to all of the cards
simultaneously and the cards can then be individually serialized.
3.2.1 Internal copying and external data flow
The PowerSoftware also provides two alternative methods if you are copying from media images.
With one method, you can copy from a master just like in stand alone mode. In this case the
CopyStation copies the data autonomously and the PC is only used to start the copy operation.
Accordingly, this method is called “internal copying”. Provided that the media being used are fast
enough, this is the only host based method that allow the IQ CopyStation to reach its theoretical
maximum copying speed.
With the second method, a medium image which was previously stored in a file on the PC is
transferred to the CopyStation hardware through USB 2.0 and copied directly to the media. The
copying speed is thus dependent on the bandwidth of the USB connection (the speed of the data
transfer). If a USB 2.0 host controller is connected to a single IQ CopyStation, transfer rates of
approx. 30 MBytes/secs. can be reached. The copying performance drops if the the USB data
transfer speed is slower than the write speed of the destination flash memory cards. However,
compared to internal copying, this method has the advantage that the master slot can also be used
for destination (empty) media, thus allowing the use of all slots for copying.
If you want to work with medium image files but also use fast internal copying, it is also possible to
transfer the image to the master and then to transfer the image from the master medium to the
destination media internally. This is advantageous if you want to copy to a large number of media.
3.3 Single slot operations
In order to carry out an operation on a single medium slot (single medium), right click the slot
status bar in the status panel of the PowerSoftware and use the context menu or choose the
required operation in the Operations menu.
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