From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Nov 3 2:57:37 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from david.siemens.de (david.siemens.de [192.35.17.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7319914F8D for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 02:57:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de) X-Envelope-Sender-Is: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (at relayer david.siemens.de) Received: from mail1.siemens.de (mail1.siemens.de [139.23.33.14]) by david.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02186 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:55:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from curry.mchp.siemens.de (curry.mchp.siemens.de [139.25.42.7]) by mail1.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15061 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:55:55 +0100 (MET) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by curry.mchp.siemens.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA34332 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:55:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:55:52 +0100 From: Andre Albsmeier To: Will Andrews Cc: Sean-Paul Rees , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CAM and CD Ripping Message-ID: <19991103115552.A62482@internal> References: <381FA175.87D97BDF@dreamfire.net> <3.0.6.32.19991103055022.008813a0@mail.psn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19991103055022.008813a0@mail.psn.net>; from andrews@technologist.com on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 05:50:22AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 03-Nov-1999 at 05:50:22 -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > At 06:44 PM 11/2/99 -0800, you wrote: > >In my recent craze to rip many-a-cd and encode them into MP3 for > >portable playing, I utilized multiple machines. You guessed it, my > >FreeBSD server too. > > > >My FreeBSD server has an UltraWideSCSI 20X Cdrom. It shows up as > >10MB/Sec in the dmesg. > > > >The thing rips at 16-18X (no problems. i use tosha), compared to 2X on > >my 24X IDE here. Is this because of CAM or is my CDROM hardware > >extraordinary? > > Uh, you _HAVE_ a 16X ripper? Fastest CD-R(W) I've seen released has > been an 8X. And the fastest hardware I've seen CD-R(W) drives built > to use has been Ultra SCSI 2 (my Yamaha CRW4416S). Plus, I've never > seen media designed to handle anything faster than 8X burn.. I have got a: cd0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers It does 12x data and 12x audio. That's why I stick with it :-) -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message