From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 27 00:21:32 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABBB916A4CE for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C925F43D54 for ; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 00:21:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from DeepCore.dk (sos.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.130]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i3R7LMXj042263; Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:21:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <408E09F2.4020009@DeepCore.dk> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:21:22 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (X11/20040329) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tim Aslat References: <20040427112906.30312285@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20040427112906.30312285@bofh.spyderweb.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: FreeBSD Multimedia Subject: Re: multiple burners X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 07:21:32 -0000 Tim Aslat wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone point me in the right direction for running multiple burners > (DVD or CD) simultaneously under FreeBSD. I know Nero and some windows > software can handle it and I was hoping that FreeBSD can do as well. You can run about as many burners as you can fit ATA controllers in your machine, there are no limits to that. Now to make things run smoothly, you should better get drives that support DMA to minimise the CPU overhead and to be on the safe side they should have "burnproof" of semilar technology as well (can you even buy an ATAPI burner with these features today?). Anyhow I know of at least a couble setups with 8 burners each that are used for making small release batches of CDR's works without a hitch using burncd and some custom scripts.... -- -Søren