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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:02:21 +0200
From: Nelis Lamprecht <nlamprecht@gmail.com>
To: Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: why CDROM operations cause system to be slow and HD operations
	do not
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On 7/13/05, Yuri <yuri@tsoft.com> wrote:
> When I read something from CDROM my system gets visibly slow and HD
> reads/writes do not have the same effect.
>=20
> I think they both should have similar effect on system performance since
> multiple requests should just wait till completion interrupt and other
> processes shouldn't be affected.
>=20

Is the CDROM attached to the same cable as your hard drive ? If so try
putting it on it's own seperate cable using your secondary channel and
see if that makes a difference.

Regards,
Nelis