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- From: frank@cs.yorku.ca (Frank Pikelner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: How to buy a CD ROM drive?
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 18:02:05 GMT
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- Organization: York University, Dept. of Computer Science
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- Well, I think it may be time to purchase a CD ROM drive. I need the experts
- on the net to let me know what I should be looking for, traps and pitfalls, etc.
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- Some things I have questions on:
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- Format type: HiSierra/(I forgot the second type) is this a function of the
- drive or a function of the drivers.
- Block size: Do all drives read at 512k blocks? I know SUN uses 2048k blocks.
- Access time: I heard MS set a standard of max. 350ms, is this important? I
- guess I may do multimedia in the future.
- Transfer rate: it seems most are 1.5 - 1.6Mb
- Buffer size: is this similar to a read ahead cache?
- OS support: I use DR DOS, OS/2 2.0, Linux, maybe NT when it comes out.
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- What do you girls/guys recommend?
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- Thanks in advance,
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