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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!doc.ic.ac.uk!aixssc.uk.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!locutus.rchland.ibm.com!chaos.rchland.ibm.com!nistler From: nistler@chaos.rchland.ibm.com (John Nistler) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Optical drives Date: 14 Apr 1994 22:43:43 GMT Organization: IBM Rochester MN Lines: 12 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2okguv$g53@locutus.rchland.ibm.com> Reply-To: john_nistler@vnet.ibm.com NNTP-Posting-Host: chaos.rchland.ibm.com I seem to be running out of room on my FreeBSD system. So I was thinking of getting an Optical drive. Do any FreeBSD users have Optical drives? What kind of controllers and size drives do you use? What is the performance? Do writes and reads take the same amount of time? Is it only good for backing up the system, or fast enough to run FreeBSD right off the Optical disk? Thanks. -- John Nistler