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From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP! ATA driver (atapi DMA)..
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> lineal velocity (and hence data rate) increases from the inside
> (start) to the outside (end) of the disk.

And consequently any CD that isn't completely full will *always*
be slower than the quoted ("guaranteed not to exceed") rate.

-- Richard


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