From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 28 00:40:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA14978 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:40:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA14932 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:39:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA19608; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:20:44 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA13867; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:20:43 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id TAA01402; Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:15:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199606271715.TAA01402@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Thanks for the CDROM writer tools! To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 19:15:55 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: darrylo@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com (Darryl Okahata) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199606262324.AA191531482@hpnmhjw.sr.hp.com> from Darryl Okahata at "Jun 26, 96 04:24:41 pm" 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 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)