Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:15:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Subject: Re: Thanks for the CDROM writer tools! Message-ID: <199606271715.TAA01402@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199606262324.AA191531482@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Jun 26, 96 04:24:41 pm"
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As Darryl Okahata wrote: > I just want to thank Joerg (for his CDROM burner drivers) and > Jordan (for his scripts). To be fair, what is mostly forgotten these days is that the initial work on the driver was done by Peter Dufault. He did it _blindly_, without ever having seen a CD-R device. I've then picked up his driver skeleton, and made it work once my boss decided to drop me the Plasmon writer next to my machine... (This wasn't particularly chosen, i have to say here: he simply ``went shopping'', and came back with a Plasmon, since ``it were just there, and it wasn't too expensive''. :-) > What makes things even more impressive is that I'm using a recycled > boatanchor to burn CDROMs: a 25MHz 386 w/16MB RAM, an el-cheapo NE2000 > clone card, and an old 1542B SCSI controller. The iso9660 image was > also accessed via NFS. :-) The trick is that you don't need a fast CPU (hey, we are not Microsloth!), as long as you've got solid hardware (like the AHA 1542) and enough of RAM so team(1) will do its job of a userland cache. Of course, if you're also going to run X11, and ghostscript (for lpd), and this, and that -- i needed 32 MB then. But i'm still impressed that it runs like a charm, without even noticing that there's a constant (and urgent) data flow in the background of the machine. -- 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. ;-)
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