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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 10:57:52 +0200
From: Julian Howard Stacey <jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de>
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Subject: Competing & slow CD-ROM Seeks
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Those of us with CD-ROM drives have probably noticed (or heard)
the competing CD-ROM seeks, when some process we're running
competes with /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb & the resultant audio technology 
slow seeks make much noise & little progress.

Perhaps some of us have also worried about cd-rom excess wear & tear from runn