From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 19 14:36:50 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 19 14:36:48 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from leviathan.inethouston.com (216-118-21-146.pdq.net [216.118.21.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AED37B400 for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 14:36:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dwcjr (DWCJR.inethouston.net [216.118.21.147]) by leviathan.inethouston.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72D5F177EC2; Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:37:47 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <004801c06a0c$4e29fbe0$931576d8@inethouston.net> From: "David W. Chapman Jr." To: , "FreeBSD-Stable" References: Subject: Re: DMA33 ATAPI CDROM and 4.2-STABLE Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:37:44 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG that's not my case, just curious why it was doing it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris BeHanna" To: "FreeBSD-Stable" 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