From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Dec 22 19:05:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA23155 for mobile-outgoing; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:05:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA23144 for ; Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:05:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA00266; Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:29:13 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199712230259.NAA00266@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: ada@bsd.org cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi cards In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Dec 1997 00:09:53 +1100." <199712221309.AAA01125@noether.blah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 13:29:11 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > There's nothing available at the moment that will do a CD-R justice, so > > you are probably wasting your time. General experience suggests that > > feeding a CD-R requires a PCI adapter and plenty of free bandwidth, > > unless you fork out for one with *lots* of buffer memory. > In my experience, with a slow CD-R such as mine, even the 1510 worked > fine. Ah, OK. I was presuming you were talking about buying one. > I'm just worried about the disk aspect, though - I've heard that > the aic driver can cause panics in such an instance? The aic driver doesn't handle error conditions very well, no. mike