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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mel.aone.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!news-out.internetmci.com!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.visi.net!news.mathworks.com!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!news-peer.gsl.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!leto.ou.edu!news.ou.edu!news.nodak.edu!plains.nodak.edu!not-for-mail From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Optical Drive unacceptably slow Date: 1 May 1997 10:09:23 -0500 Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo Lines: 12 Message-ID: <5kabn3$jgk@plains.nodak.edu> References: <5k9fkq$8k2$1@otis.netspace.net.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40127 In article <5k9fkq$8k2$1@otis.netspace.net.au>, Mark Heath <mheath@netspace.net.au> wrote: > >Im using a Toray PD/CDrom drive on Free BSD 2.1.7.1 with an Adaptec AHA 2940. >Using the msdos filesystem Im getting approximately 12k/s normally this >drive gets transfer rates of around 500k/s. a professor just bought one of these drives and we unix fdisk, disklabel, and newfs the media. I noticed this drive writes slowly, but I if I not mistaken reads are much faster. --mark.