From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 4 18:32:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtpshb2.statcan.ca (smtpshb2.statcan.ca [142.206.3.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FE337B43C for ; Fri, 4 May 2001 18:32:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeays@stcinet.statcan.ca) Received: from stcinet.statcan.ca (stcinet.statcan.ca [142.206.128.146]) by smtpshb2.statcan.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f451XL500339; Fri, 4 May 2001 21:33:21 -0400 Received: from statcan.ca ([142.206.58.27]) by stcinet.statcan.ca (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA18341; Fri, 4 May 2001 21:31:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3AF357E3.A02B799@statcan.ca> Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 21:31:15 -0400 From: Mike Jeays Organization: Statistics Canada X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Graywane , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CD-RW IDE - CPU requirements References: <3A66CAF3B5D3D4119AFD00508BC286ADE22F0B@msxa4.statcan.ca> <20010504170735.A8492@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the info. I was surprised by a recent evaluation of CD-RW devices in a local magazine, that specified different levels of Pentium 2 and 3 for various drives as the minimum acceptable - under Windows, of course. I am quite happy to make sure the machine is not doing anything else while I write a CD. Graywane wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:01:48PM -0400, Mike.Jeays@statcan.ca wrote: > > Has anyone succeeded in running an IDE CD-RW device on a Pentium 120? I > > am not sure if the CPU speed is adequate to keep up the required data > > transfer rate. > > You can saturate a PCI bus with an old 386 much less a Pentium 120. Any CDRW > you get will be incredibly slow compared to the CPU. Just make sure you have > enough RAM so that you don't swap heavily while writing your CD's. Free > memory and not running programs that read/write the other drives is far more > important than processor speed. > > As for what drive to get, I have a PLEXTOR CD-RW PX-W1210A (32/12/10) and am > very happy with it. > > Michael > > -- > Note: See http://www.members.home.net/graywane/ for PGP information. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Mike Jeays : System Development Division, Statistics Canada 14-O R. H. Coats Building, Holland Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0T6 Voice (613)-951-9929 FAX 951-0607 Web page : http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/~ad161 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message