Date: Fri, 2 Aug 1996 13:09:41 -0700 From: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.COM> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: h/w requirements for CD-R writing? Message-ID: <199608022009.NAA14408@saguaro.flyingfox.com>
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Can anyone lend any insight on this question: Is a single NCR53C810 SCSI host adapter sufficient for CD-ROM writing, or will I need a second SCSI host adapter, so that one reads the disk while the other writes the CD-ROM? I understand that there are real-time constraints when writing CD-R's, but on the other hand, they're only writing at 300 KB/s, and they have 1 or 2 MB of cache .... The tentative plan is to dedicate an old 66 MHz Pentium box with an NCR53C810 on the motherboard, with a 1.3 GB SCSI-2 HP disk (4KRPM, 13.5 ms average access, ca. 2 MB/s sustained transfer rate), plus a CD-writer to be determined, to this task. Is this likely to work? Jim Shankland Flying Fox Computer Systems, Inc.
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