Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 11:55:46 -0600 (CST) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> To: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: Sean-Paul Rees <sean@dreamfire.net>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: CAM and CD Ripping Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991103115259.79398D-100000@shell-1.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.991103132318.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
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On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 03-Nov-99 Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > > The thing rips at 16-18X (no problems. i use tosha), compared to 2X on > > my 24X IDE here. Is this because of CAM or is my CDROM hardware > > extraordinary? > > Well its just that IDE CDroms suck :) They do, but some non-trivial fraction of the poor performance is drivers. My desktop at work does DAE at less than 1x speed, while my office mate, with an indentical machine can get 8xish, under NT. At home, I get 2X from the IDE drive and 12X from the SCSI 16X one. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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