From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 29 14:34:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA10781 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:34:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA10774 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 14:34:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA17683 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 29 May 1997 23:33:55 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA05217; Thu, 29 May 1997 22:29:30 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970529222929.LI27219@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 22:29:29 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP 6020 Problems References: <199705291802.UAA09115@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Dan Riley on May 29, 1997 14:09:29 -0500 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Dan Riley wrote: > Has anyone had any luck with their HP or Philips cd-writer on a Adaptec > 2940UW? If not what is the preferred controller for this application? The controller is fairly irrelevant (well, as long as it's a good one, not just a PIO hookup monster like the old Seagate ST-01 :). CD-R drives don't require a very fast SCSI bus, they usually only write with so-called double speed. That translates to 305 KB/s for CD-ROM data, or 350 KB/s for raw (like CD-DA) data. That's far below any disk's rate today. I'm pretty sure i could successfully use my aged AHA-1540A for the CD-R drive as well. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)