This one time, at band camp, Bill Moseley said: > > This is a rather non-specific question: > > Will CD writing quality be effected if the machine is doing other > tasks? Of course the answer is "it depends", but here's what I'm > considering: It depends (sorry, couldn't help myself) (^: > So my simple question is: See any reason this machine can't be both a > NAT/firewall/fetchmail machine and burn CDs without errors? My guess > that would not be a problem, especially since the drive is SCSI. No, I don't see any problems. > I'm not looking for any hard answers. But I don't want to waste my > time building the NAT/firewall if all we end up with is a machine that > sits there ready to burn CDs. I guess am looking for people that have > a similar setup -- that will help convince my friend that this is a > good way to set up the machine. > > Thanks, FWIW, I used to have an AMD 400 or thereabouts, that ran as my desktop, burned CD's on a SCSI drive, and NAT/firewalled a second computer. Never had a problem, until one day the motherboard fried during a heat wave, but I think that was unrelated. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | I don't get no respect. | |steve@lobefin.net | | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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