From owner-freebsd-hackers  Sat Oct 10 08:13:06 1998
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From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: how fast are "fast" CDROM drives ?
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Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 14:13:13 +0100 (MET)
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Well it seems that everybody here is crazy to upgrade their CDROM
drives to the fastest unit they can get, but i wonder if it makes any
sense...

I got a 32x ATAPI unit one month ago and there is no way (under
-stable) i can get more than 2.2MB/s by dd'ing from the disk.
Considering i get 5-6MB/s from a raw IDE disk (and from iozone with
large files) on the same machine, i don't think the limiting factor is
CPU or the OS.

I wonder if anybody is able to exploit the speed of their 24/32/40x
IDE or SCSI drives

	cheers
	luigi

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