From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 13 23:32:23 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC41214D98 for ; Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA48312; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:32:19 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA01241; Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:23:29 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910140623.HAA01241@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.0 09/18/1999 To: Lars Strobor Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Using 5 or more SCSI CD-R burners with FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message from Lars Strobor of "Wed, 13 Oct 1999 16:41:45 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 07:23:29 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Hello, > I am interested in putting together a machine to burn lots of CD-ROM's > for software distribution. I want to put anywhere from 5 to 10, 8 speed > burners in the system that will write one ISO image at the same time using > multiple processes of cdrecord. My question is will the SCSI subsystem on > FreeBSD handle this, and has anyone ever tried this? I have explored the > possibility of using Linux, but it looks like there is a problem with > limited buffers in the SCSI generic driver. Does FreeBSD have the same > problem, or does FreeBSD Rock. Any help or insight would be greatly > appreciated. I'd suggest you suck-it-and-see. I'd certainly be interested in the results though - they'd be worth posting :-) > -Lars -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message