Re: HEADS UP! ATA driver (atapi DMA)..

[Daniel O'Connor]

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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