From: Niall O Broin (nobroin at domain sced.esoc.esa.de)
Date: Mon 31 May 1999 - 12:42:42 IST
Vincent said
> Even assuming 4x CD Writers, that's still only 7x600k = 4.2MB/s
> throughput on the SCSI bus, with minimal CPU overhead and very little
> disk reading, because it'll cache everything after the first read.
This sounds sweet and wonderful, but you're assuming that you can maintain
a sustained throughput for ~15 minutes which is 42% of the theoretical
max. throughput (I don't know if there are any Ultra or UW SCSI burners).
I'd be dubious, though I imagine with a fast machine and two SCSI channels
to spread the load, it might be doable. But you're only going to know it'll
fly if you suck it and see, or find someone who has done so already.
Kindest regards,
Niall O Broin
UNIX Network Administrator nobroin at domain esoc.esa.de
Ground Systems Engineering Department Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179
European Space Operations Centre, Darmstadt, Germany
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