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On Sep 4, 2005, at 3:26 PM, Paulo Roberto wrote:

> Would you guys put and old Celeron (running Freebsd 5.3) 266Mhz with
> 64MB for dvd writing?
>
> I have this old machine and I am thinking about buying an internal DVD
> writer for it, since it is cheaper than buying and external unit  
> for my
> laptop.

Do you have a large enough HD to play with DVD images?

How fast can it dd a big file to /dev/null? You'll need 1.4 MB/sec  
for each "x" your DVD runs.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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