Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 20:49:57 -0500 From: John Wilson <BSD-Mail@nyc.rr.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB CD-ROM installations. Message-ID: <20050112204957.1e897d6e.BSD-Mail@nyc.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <41E49AC8.4010909@mac.com> References: <20050111210651.41838ab4.BSD-Mail@nyc.rr.com> <41E49AC8.4010909@mac.com>
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On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500 Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: [...] > I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well > and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of > problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, too. > > If it is possible, consider using Firewire instead: FreeBSD works very well > with FW/1394, and FW was designed for that kind of usage (specificly, > reserving dedicated I/O channels to guarantee bandwidth for realtime > multimedia tasks). [...] Well, I'm sort of limited in one specific way in this regard - it will be the only optical solution available to this particular machine, which unfortunately means that it would -have- to be USB in order to boot off of. As long as I can install FreeBSD 5.3 with this unit, all would be well. I've been looking at Macally external enclosures today and came across one variety that includes both a USB 2.0 and Firewire interface. This really proves to be the best way to go, I believe - if I need to boot off of a CD, slap it on the USB port, otherwise, it'll pretty much stay on the firewire port the remainder of the time for general use which will allow full speed operation. Thankfully, my Audigy 2 sound card has a firewire interface on it. Never thought I'd use it prior to this, but glad that it's there for use now. : ) Thank you for your time, Chuck, and your reply. It was most appreciated. - John.
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