Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 17:27:11 -0500 (EST) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: FreeBSD-Stable <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DMA33 ATAPI CDROM and 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012191724420.76023-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20001219151922.A73910@skunkworks.area51-arpa.mil>
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On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Chris Wasser wrote:
> [...CDROM running in UDMA mode or not...]
>
> I can't see it making all that big a difference unless perhaps your machine
> is a network jukebox or something where CDROM speed would be a important
> factor, but if you're like me and rarely use your CDROM under BSD (I use it
> more in Windows then BSD) then you're missing nothing.
If you're doing something CPU-intensive, like, say, decoding video
in software at 24fps, and you're pulling that video from your CDROM
(or DVD drive), then you're going to want UDMA, methinks.
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer
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