Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-29 Thread David Miller
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > :As for the general concept, I can say it works fine. I built a system > :with nearly 30 DVD-ram drives on 6 separate scsi channels. At first I > :tried using a utility that would read from the input image (on hard > :disk) and write it out to all th

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-29 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: :> :> There is no multi-target command that I know of. You are absolutely :> correct in your bandwidth calculations... a SCSI bus should have no :> problem at all duping the data 8 times to each of 8 CDR's, and the :> operating syste

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-26 Thread David Miller
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > There is no multi-target command that I know of. You are absolutely > correct in your bandwidth calculations... a SCSI bus should have no > problem at all duping the data 8 times to each of 8 CDR's, and the > operating system ought t

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Scott Hess
On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Keith Pitcher wrote: > On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and scripts > > of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not necessary > > to have a multi-cd tool when you can rol

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 18:27:16 -0400, Keith Pitcher wrote: > > > I also didn't know that there was a write-to-many SCSI command? > > > Someone can confirm or deny this > > Coulda sworn the raid controller on our main freebsd machine does mirroring > via scsi with a single command. So I took it

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Keith Pitcher
> > I also didn't know that there was a write-to-many SCSI command? > > Someone can confirm or deny this Coulda sworn the raid controller on our main freebsd machine does mirroring via scsi with a single command. So I took it that this was a scsi card ability and not a raid controller option. I

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 16:22:56 -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > > "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Keith> Given the hardware, is there a way to burn 8 CDs at one time, > Keith> or is there some mirroring code that is well written enough to > Keith> facilitate it? > > I

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread David Gilbert
> "Matthew" == Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matthew> I'm somewhat interested in knowing that this concept Matthew> actually works :-) I used to have a system that was a K6/233 with a 2940W SCSI controller. It had IDE disks and two SCSI burners... one 1x and one 4x. I foun

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Keith> This is a simplistic and inadequate solution. UNIX was intended :Keith> to be efficient, not to do eight Times the amount of work of :Keith> any other system. This uses 8 times the memory, 8 times the :Keith> processor, and 8 times the bus (only 4 times if two channels, :Keith> but you ge

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread David Gilbert
> "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Keith> On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: >> Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and >> scripts of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not >> necessary to have a multi-cd

Re: [hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread Keith Pitcher
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 07:07:54AM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > Remember: unix is a system whereby you assemble piplelines and scripts > of _simple_ programs to create complex behavior. It's not necessary > to have a multi-cd tool when you can roll your own with your own > behavior. > > Dave.

[hackers] Multi CDR burn

2002-07-09 Thread David Gilbert
> "Keith" == Keith Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Keith> I hate to bother the list, but after lots of searching I Keith> haven't found this out - maybe I missed something obvious : Keith> I have 8 scsi CDRs in a netserver 5 case, need to burn a number Keith> of CDs. I haven't seen anyt