Mail Archives: opendos/2001/02/18/10:29:15
Patrick Moran wrote on Wed, 14 Feb 2001:
>For audio CDs you only need a 1X or 2X drive
>(I don't recall which the audio CD speed is.)
One counts with the times of audio reading speed. So 1x is audio speed.
>>[speed of CD drives]
>I am not certain why that matters. I have an old 4X Toshiba SCSI CDROM.
>My brother has a Creative Labs 24X. I really have not been able to tell
>any difference between his and mine.
>As for loading software, if a high speed drive does auctually
>load the software faster, it's no big deal to me.
Youre mostly right here.
>Even when installing Linux on my old 386DX40, I never noticed a
>difference it the time it took to install it from a CDROM or my
>much faster Syquest cartridge drive.
Its likely to see differences in installing Linux or WIN98 is due to
access time rather then transfer rates.
Depending on the drive I see a big difference running the browser
from c't magazine (a german PC magazine) to scan the magazine.
>> SCSI, USB, floppy? Sorry I cannot follow.
>What I am talking about is data transfer rates.
Yeah, but thats why I decided to connect the way I did.
>> >It may be purely a hardware problem.
>> Less likely. Despite of the IDE issue there is more evidence
>> beeing a API or _protocoll_ problem. At which level remains open...
>It most likely is a combination of both. I just had a thought.
>What if you were to disable one of the drives in the CMOS setup
>and enable the one you want to use each time you want to change
>drives? I don't know if this will work.
Theres no _CDROM_ entry in BIOS.
>Aren't both channels EIDE???
First channel is EIDE, second is IDE.
Regards,
Utz
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