From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 2 3:43:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56EE337B503 for ; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 03:43:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id MAA86973; Mon, 2 Oct 2000 12:43:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: David Kelly Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD writers - recommendations References: <200009290409.e8T49ja38223@nospam.hiwaay.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Oct 2000 12:43:42 +0200 In-Reply-To: David Kelly's message of "Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:09:45 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 13 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David Kelly writes: > Agreed that you don't want the source to run off doing something else > for so long that the CD-R starves. But that is a real time issue. > Actually its an issue that IDE drives serve better than SCSI as in a > real time system "fast" is not as important as "predictable." No, the problem is that you need to do more than just write to the CD burner, and without tagged queueing, you don't get a chance to do much of anything else. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message