Message-ID: <3A8FEA6D.38F6E399@compuserve.de> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:29:49 +0100 From: Utz Zarwell X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [de]C-CCK-MCD QXW0323p (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: de,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: prob audio CD on 2nd CD-ROM with NWCDEX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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