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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: CD writer software? Date: 15 Feb 1997 16:17:02 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <5e4nhv$glt@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <E4vGKJ.LKp@fsa.bris.ac.uk> <5d0ik6$2u5@uriah.heep.sax.de> <E58GA8.7wL@fsa.bris.ac.uk> <E5E750.7DE@fsa.bris.ac.uk> <33003DC8.237C228A@freebsd.org> <330335BC.5D7C@mail.hqs.crc.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35510 Dan Benjamin <dpb@mail.hqs.crc.com> wrote: > Wondering what the *best* solution is to burn CD's from FreeBSD (the > best hardware, the software to use, etc). I think any of the currently supported burners works equally well (HP 4020i, CDD2000, Plasmon RF4100), the newer ones will likely either also work, or could be made working with little effort only. My personal recommendation is to get a decent (i.e. bus-mastering) SCSI controller, although somebody in this thread reported that his AVA1505 worked well, too. If you wanna run Xwindows and all other whistles and bells simultaneously on the machine you're using for burning, get 32 MB of RAM (and use a fair amount of it for a userland cache for the burning process). That's about all there is to be. As usual, the CPU power itself plays a very minor roll, i'd assume you can do all this perfectly on a 486/66 already. I wouldn't recommend using IDE disk drives as source (too much CPU consumption), or using a NFS drive for the input (too risky if somebody pulls the plug for 3 seconds). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)