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Date:      Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:33:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      torstenb@vmunix.org (Torsten Blum)
To:        peter@taronga.com
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how fast are "fast" CDROM drives ?
Message-ID:  <m0zSJkI-0006AJC@onizuka.vmunix.org>
References:  <199810101313.OAA16631@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199810102000.PAA20647@bonkers.taronga.com>

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In freebsd-hackers you write:

>Nah. In fact for random access the faster drives are slower than the older
>4x or 6x drives, because they lose too much time speeding up and slowing
>down.

Depends on the drive. There are models that start reading at singlespeed.

>I wish there was some flag you could set to limit their speed.

The Plextor drives have such a feature. You can set the speed with scsi(8).
I'll check the scsi command manual on monday for the SET CD SPEED command.

 -tb

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