From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 11 18:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17150 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17144 for ; Sun, 11 Oct 1998 18:21:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA08165; Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:51:01 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:51:01 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: (Torsten Blum) Subject: Re: how fast are "fast" CDROM drives ? Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, garbanzo@hooked.net Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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