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Date:      Wed, 01 Sep 1999 10:40:04 +0930 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Kevin Street <street@iname.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP! ATA driver (atapi DMA)..
Message-ID:  <XFMail.990901104004.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <87906repae.fsf@mired.eh.local>

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On 31-Aug-99 Kevin Street wrote:
> >     Well 2MB/sec == 14x CDRom drive.  Is it a 14x CDRom drive?  CDRom
> >     drives are typically limited to how quickly they can get data off
> >     the platter.  A faster bus transfer will not improve that.
>  I should have mentioned that ... it's a 32x cdrom.  dmesg says it
>  claims to be able to do 5515 KB/sec. 

Which is slightly more correct..
32x = 32 * 150 = 4800 kb/s

1 spin = 150kb/sec

Of course given the advent of CLV drives a speed rating is now usually the
maximum read speed, not the average.

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Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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