Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 20:33:00 -0500 From: dkelly@HiWAAY.net To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Best CDROM Writer? Message-ID: <199707250133.UAA03012@nexgen.hiwaay.net>
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Before I arrived at my current job last year, The Powers That Be had already purchased a (actually two) Young Minds Inc, CDStudio for mastering CDROMs. An interesting box consisting of a 486DX PC with custom EPROM, an Adaptec 1542CF, and another card with SCSI that I don't recognize. System has its own 1G HD on a LUN which looks like a tape drive to the hosting Sun. The CDROM writer appears on a different LUN on the same SCSI ID. And they have special software for mastering the disk from the given data, and actually writing the CDROM. I can understand how isolating the CDROM and a private 1G disk on another SCSI bus (as Young Minds did) can ensure the writer gets its data when needed. But I'm told this system cost $30k. Just the Young Minds stuff, not including the Sun. Translating data from tape to CDROM has proven popular and we need more systems to handle the task. Have gotten permission to give a trial run to a CDROM writing station hosted on FreeBSD. I've got all the PC parts. And I can temporarily steal the writer off a Young Minds system. But if I was to buy new, what CD-R's are good, and which to avoid? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.
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