Re: PATCH: SCSI generic/big buffer

kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:09:30 -0600 (EST)

And lo, Hans-Joachim Baader saith unto me:
>
> with everyone having a scanner nowadays, and memory sizes continuously
> growing, I don't think that the default buffer size in sg.h is any longer
> apprropriate. Since I don't have a better solution, I just set it to the
> maximum size (does this limit still exist?).
>
> And I think cdwrite is outdated and not maintained anymore, so I replaced
> it with a pointer to cdrecord.

And cdrecord, in turn, mlocks about 4M of buffer from user-space; it may
use RT priority too, I'm not sure.

What needed help, last I knew, was the limit of a single buffer. I want to
do cdda extraction from both my UltraPlex and my CD-RW drive at the same
time, for instance...

Keith

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