From owner-freebsd-security Thu Jun 17 11:16:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BAD0A14CAE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:16:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) Received: (qmail 99215 invoked from network); 17 Jun 1999 18:16:07 -0000 Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.41) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 17 Jun 1999 18:16:07 -0000 Received: from localhost (dscheidt@localhost) by shell-2.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with SMTP id NAA16709; Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:16:06 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: shell-2.enteract.com: dscheidt owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:16:05 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Richard Childers , Bruce Campbell , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: some nice advice.... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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