Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 00:05:25 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Mike.Jeays@statcan.ca Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CD-RW IDE - CPU requirements Message-ID: <200105050505.f4555PP86982@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Mike.Jeays@statcan.ca of "Fri, 04 May 2001 12:01:48 EDT." <3A66CAF3B5D3D4119AFD00508BC286ADE22F0B@msxa4.statcan.ca>
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Mike.Jeays@statcan.ca writes: > 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. > > If so, any recommendations about which devices are known to work with > burncd? > The Panasonic 8*4*32 drive is readily available in this area at a very good > price. Years ago when even then a P-133 was a dog it was what I scrounged at work to put FreeBSD on and do fun things with. Had an Adaptec 2940UW, 1G narrow SCSI drive, 1G IDE drive, IDE CD, and I had a bunch of external SCSI tape drives, hard drives, and the infamous Yamaha CDR-100, one of the very first 4x CD-R's. SCSI of course. During the time I had it the machine ran FreeBSD 2.2.5 thru 2.2.8. X was up all the time. Netscape Communicator 3.x, and exmh-2. And then I got started on burning CD's big time. At first I stepped lightly around the machine when cdrecord was running. Eventually I hardly gave a thought to what I was doing when a CD-R was burning. Would causually be copying data from tape and preping the next CD to burn. Often didn't have enough disk space so I'd be moving files via NFS to an SGI O2. Never was brave enough to burn from an NFS volume. Always believed it would work and got casual enough about it that I might have done it without realizing it. Of course you have to realize this machine was stuffed with memory. All of 24MB. Really was behind even for its day. It doesn't have a CD-R any more but still has 24MB and FreeBSD 2.2.8. I'm long gone but I know that machine is still running the server tasks I left it with. While my tale is all SCSI, back then we didn't have the efficient ATA driver we have now in FreeBSD. With an appropriate ATA interface card and fast drives I expect a P-120 will not have any problems at all. Am pleased with a 12/8/32 Sony "160-something" IDE/ATA drive I have in one FreeBSD system. Haven't beat on it nearly as much as I did the old Yamaha. Tried a Philips 8/4/32 drive that was so bad I had to pay Circuit City $22.50 to take it back. Bought an HP 9150 SCSI elsewhere, and its been everything the Philips was not. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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