Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:16:53 +0100 (MET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: se@FreeBSD.ORG, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, robsch@robkaos.ruhr.de, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problem with 3701B CD-ROM Message-ID: <199702121916.UAA01229@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199702120334.UAA06394@narnia.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Feb 11, 97 08:34:36 pm
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As Justin T. Gibbs wrote... > >> > That would mean they don't grok tagged queuing. > >> > >> Like just about any CDROM drive on the market today :) > > > >Which is logical since TCQ only makes sense in devices that > >are not slow like molasses by design ;-) > > This is far from the truth. Tagged queuing reduces the number and > distance of seeks; a very winning proposition on a CDROM drive. Hm. IMHO CDROMs are speedwise only suitable to install software from (compared to about anything in magnetic disks that is). Beating them with random I/O is not my idea of fun in any case. Wilko _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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