Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:16:05 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> Cc: Richard Childers <rchilders@hamquist.com>, Bruce Campbell <bc@thehub.com.au>, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some nice advice.... Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990617130952.15668A-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpso7qiwgk.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 17 Jun 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Modern CD-ROMs are fast, but have very bad latency, which really kills > random access performance. The only manufcaturer I know of which makes > CD-ROM drives with acceptable latency is Pioneer. A fair number of disks have a write protect mode. The ST-11950W I use as a paper weight, has jumper one as Write Protect Enable. It isn't too difficult to bring this out as a switch. Fixed disks are fast, and have low latency. David Scheidt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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