Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:37:44 -0600 From: "David W. Chapman Jr." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> To: <behanna@zbzoom.net>, "FreeBSD-Stable" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DMA33 ATAPI CDROM and 4.2-STABLE Message-ID: <004801c06a0c$4e29fbe0$931576d8@inethouston.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0012191724420.76023-100000@topperwein.dyndns.org>
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that's not my case, just curious why it was doing it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris BeHanna" <behanna@zbzoom.net> To: "FreeBSD-Stable" <stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 4:27 PM Subject: Re: DMA33 ATAPI CDROM and 4.2-STABLE > 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 > behanna@bogus.zbzoom.net Remove "bogus" before responding. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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