Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1998 05:47:18 +0100 (MET) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how fast are "fast" CDROM drives ? Message-ID: <199810110447.FAA17683@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199810102000.PAA20647@bonkers.taronga.com> from "Peter da Silva" at Oct 10, 98 02:59:43 pm
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> 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. now that you mention it... loading the boot image from a bootable CDrom using said 32x drive is slow as hell... (not that using the floppy was fast) this is happening under BIOS control so i have no idea if this is deliberate or not. in any case there might be some atapi command to set the read speed (perhaps through mode pages ?) luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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