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- From: ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux,alt.cd-rom
- Subject: Re: What is a good PC CD-ROM drive for me?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.225850.8501@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 22:58:50 GMT
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- In article <RUSSELL.92Aug25150134@csd475a.erim.org> russell@csd475a.erim.org (John Russell) writes:
- > > Keep in mind that the real cheap drives can have seek times on the
- > >order of 800ms. If this is acceptable to you, then go ahead.
- >
- > I have seen software advertised that speeds these slow access units up.
- > Has anyone tried this software? Do you get a noticeable performance
- > increase? I don't remember the name/manufacturer of the software.
- > The price was quite reasonable.
-
- I do not know anything about this software. My guess is that this
- is nothing more than a cache of some kind, and with linux we use the same
- buffer cache that the regular disk drives use. Also, many drives have a 64k
- track buffer, which also helps to reduce I/O time, but would obviously not do
- very much for the seek times.
-
- -Eric
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