Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 02:00:42 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: "Mike Maltese" <mike@pcmedx.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: atacontrol(8) Message-ID: <200310150200.42696.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <003e01c392f8$e34042d0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com> References: <3F8CC8BD.50702@rbcmail.ru> <200310142311.39354.kstewart@owt.com> <003e01c392f8$e34042d0$f4f0a8c0@pcmedx.com>
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On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:46 am, Mike Maltese wrote: > > acd0: DVDROM <ATAPI DVD-ROM 16X Maximum> at ata1-master UDMA66 > > I stand corrected, although I maintain that no optical drive is > capable of that kind of throughput. =) I was kinda wondering if he'd > been duped on the specs of the drive. > Neither are the HDs. They transfer at their rated speed but only have the bus for a few milliseconds at a time. Regardless of the device, if you transfer the data using dma, you are going to pass more information per turn. I figure the rest is advertising hype. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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