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From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: how fast are "fast" CDROM drives ?
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In article <199810101313.OAA16631@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> you write:
>Well it seems that everybody here is crazy to upgrade their CDROM
>drives to the fastest unit they can get, but i wonder if it makes any
>sense...

Nah. In fact for random access the faster drives are slower than the older
4x or 6x drives, because they lose too much time speeding up and slowing
down. I wish there was some flag you could set to limit their speed.


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