From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 11 04:33:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18986 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 04:33:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from onizuka.vmunix.org (onizuka.vmunix.org [194.97.84.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18957 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 04:33:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from torstenb@vmunix.org) Received: by onizuka.vmunix.org via sendmail with stdio id for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 13:33:06 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: 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 ? References: <199810101313.OAA16631@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> <199810102000.PAA20647@bonkers.taronga.com> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message