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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!lanl!news
- From: Gavin Adams <gavin.adams@lso.mts.dec.com>
- Subject: Re: Warning on NEC CD-74 CD-ROM Drives
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.183601.24091@newshost.lanl.gov>
- X-Xxdate: Tue, 25 Aug 92 12:32:40 GMT
- Sender: news@newshost.lanl.gov
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- References: <71581@apple.Apple.COM>
- Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 18:36:01 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- In article <1992Aug25.002357.25749@afterlife.ncsc.mil> M. Scott Smith,
- mssmith@afterlife.ncsc.mil writes:
- >Is that how it works? (The CDR-74 distinguishes between audio and data,
- >spinning twice as fast with data; how does it differentiate, and is audio
- >and data normally separated?)
-
- Data and audio are separated (I think). Speed on the Intersect drives
- stay at 150kbs until the transfer size goes over some threshold. At that
- point the drive goes into double-speed and transfers at 300kbs.
- Applications with lots of small data access won't see a large improvement
- in speed.
-
- But I still bought a NEC CDR-83 and love it.
-
- --- Gavin
- Visualize Whirled Peas!
-