[geeks] Writing to multiple cd recorders under nix?

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> > "Has anybody ever used multiply cd recorders under unix? I got a
> > "workstation that has "7 CD-RW drives attached to it and I would like
> > to write one iso to all "7 writers at the same "time. I know I could
> > just start 7 instances of cdrecord but I do not "know if the system
> > will "handle this.
> >
> > i'd doubt the scsibus could handle it.
>
> I'd be more concerned about losing streaming on one or more of the
> burners.  Trying to burn 7 CDs at once sounds like a recipe for a lot of
> coasters.

I wonder how many burns you could have running on a single SCSI bus (say a
newfangled UltraSCSI -- 20MBps -- bus)?

Peace...  Sridhar