From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Feb 12 11:53:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA22690 for freebsd-scsi-outgoing; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:53:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from narnia.plutotech.com (narnia.plutotech.com [206.168.67.130]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22682; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 11:53:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from narnia (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by narnia.plutotech.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA08056; Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:53:03 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199702121953.MAA08056@narnia.plutotech.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0beta 12/23/96 To: Wilko Bulte 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:16:53 +0100." <199702121916.UAA01229@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:53:03 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 >_ ____________________________________________________________________ > | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl - Arnhem, The Netherlands > |/|/ / / /( (_) Do, or do not. There is no 'try' - Yoda >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================