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Date:      Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:53:03 -0700
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
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:  <199702121953.MAA08056@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:16:53 %2B0100." <199702121916.UAA01229@yedi.iaf.nl> 

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>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.

Sure, but in a multi-user system, its fairly easy to get pathological
seek behavior on a CDROM drive and tagged queueing would greatly increase
throughput in this case.

>Wilko
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> |   / o / /  _  Bulte  email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands
> |/|/ / / /( (_) 	Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda
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Justin T. Gibbs
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