On Sunday 17 November 2002 02:29 pm, Bill Moseley wrote: Hi Bill
The full answer is "it depends" - chipset behaviour, NIC behaviour, all those sorts of things. A rough back-of-the-envelope answer is: - You can NAT fine through a P75 (or less) with 16MB. - You can burn CDs fine with a P90 with 64MB (though maybe not at 8x). So it should be OK to do both with a P3-450 with 256MB. - Derek > This is a rather non-specific question: > > Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other tasks? > Of course the answer is "it depends", but here's what I'm considering: > > A few of my Debian machines are old MS Windows hand-me-downs. I've been > offered another (they just bought a new machine because the old one was > crashing in Windows all the time). But, this time I want to give it back > with Debian installed. > > They are not ready for Linux on the desktop, but said that they would be > willing to have a linux machine they could use for burning CDs. > > I, on the other hand, would rather give them a NAT (masq) and firewall > machine and let them put their XP machine on the protected internal LAN > for all the obvious reasons. I'd rather do that than add a second NIC to > the XP machine. Linux is good for this, and frankly, I think this might be > a good way to get Linux into the homes of Windows users that would not > consider Linux otherwise. > > Anyway, the machine in question is only a few years old -- A PIII 450Mhz w/ > 256MB. The CD-R installed in that machine is a SCSI drive (8x burn speed). > > Now, they don't want the NAT machine because of the worry that if the > machine is doing other things (like fetching mail) that it will effect the > quality of CD writing. > > So my simple question is: See any reason this machine can't be both a > NAT/firewall/fetchmail machine and burn CDs without errors? My guess that > would not be a problem, especially since the drive is SCSI. > > They also have a new 48x (sure beats 8x) CD-R IDE on order. I wonder how > that will work, also. > > I'm not looking for any hard answers. But I don't want to waste my time > building the NAT/firewall if all we end up with is a machine that sits > there ready to burn CDs. I guess am looking for people that have a similar > setup -- that will help convince my friend that this is a good way to set > up the machine. > > Thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
