Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:51:01 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: (Torsten Blum) <torstenb@vmunix.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, garbanzo@hooked.net Subject: Re: how fast are "fast" CDROM drives ? Message-ID: <XFMail.981012105101.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <m0zSK12-0006AJC@onizuka.vmunix.org>
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On 11-Oct-98 Torsten Blum wrote: > I wouldnt call CAV "cheating". The problem are hardware vendors who want to > sell the "fastest" drives, so they use the highest speed the drive supports, > and that's 32x. And since the drive doesn't have to change speed it saves power and time :) (IMHO you can get CLV drives >12x too) Most CAV drives have the speed stated like '32x MAX' which is a marketing term for 32x-if-you-are-lucky-and-have-sacrificied-to-your-deity-of-choice-today.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- |Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software | |http://www.gsoft.com.au | |The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to| |choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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