On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 12:50:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > CDR has definite advantages. I had a SCSI 2x running fine on a 386 40mhz > with 8mb of RAM and a 1gig IDE drive. If I generated the iso image on the > box it was a little slow, so I nfs exported the directory with rw and > no_root_squash options. This allowed me to build a backup volume from > a faster machine on the network. It took little more time than it would to > copy a 650mb image over ethernet. I was careful not to run any servers on > the 386 so I left the network connected while roasting CD's. I even used > the virtual consoles to telnet around my network while burning discs. I > never had a problem keeping the CDR buffer filled. If I do this type of > setup again, I will even try heavily pinging the box while recording and > requesting all kinds of connects to get it busy writing to log files.
Considering this... I have 96mb of memory, more than I need for anything, really. Is there anyway I could designate some of this memory into a virtual buffer for a CD-R, to further lessen the effect of CD write errors? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]