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- From: ral@athens.cc.bellcore.com ()
- Subject: Re: Creative Labs CD-Rom support
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 93 22:24:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.222417.12850@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- Summary: Creative Labs CD-ROM
- References: <9301034759@ritz.mordor.com>
- Sender: netnews@porthos.cc.bellcore.com (USENET System Software)
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- In article <9301034759@ritz.mordor.com>, ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:
- > The price for the Soundblaster Pro + CD-Rom package seems to be
- > right around $400 right now and I'm considering taking the plunge.
- > My only concern is whether or not there is a working driver for
- > CL's proprietary CD-Rom interface and if not the status of development
- > of such a driver. I'm interested in this package for 2 reasons:
- > * it's cheap (relatively)
- > * it's fast (I believe the CD-Rom avg seek is 340ms and is MPC(?)
- > compliant).
- >
-
- I was wondering what it means when the specs for this CD-ROM drive say that
- it has 540 MB data capacity. Many CD-ROMs and drives that I've read about
- seem to have as much as 660 MB. Does this mean the Creative Labs drive
- cannot read all of those 660MB disks? BTW, the drive has 390 ms access
- time, a 64 K buffer, and 150K/sec transfer rate.
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