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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: VideoCD
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.990602181108.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> from "Daniel O'Connor" at "Jun 2, 1999  6:11: 8 pm"
To: doconnor@gsoft.com.au (Daniel O'Connor)
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 10:46:08 +0200 (CEST)
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	tarkhil@asteroid.svib.ru, thierry.herbelot@alcatel.fr
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It seems Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 02-Jun-99 Soren Schmidt wrote:
> > > I'm using an unoffical patch to the 3.0 kernel for a ripper (daex) which
> > > I would like to use under 3.2, but I don't understand what the ioctls
> > > do.
> >  If you use ATAPI drives you can use cdd from ports, works like a charm...
> 
> What sort of speeds do people get with this? 
> 
> I have a Diamond 40x IDE CDROM drive, and I get about 2x CDDA reading which is
> a bit weird IMHO.
> 
> I'm quite prepared to believe its because the drive sucks tho :)

Well, I get around 800k/sec using a Toshiba 40x drive. However most drives
cannot read CDDA drives at full speed, most blame it on not being able
to read the data without errors (there is NO hw correction on CDDA reads)
so lowering the speed produces fewer errors.

-Søren


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