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- From: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Creative Labs CD-ROM drivers - Any progress?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.014525.20705@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg>
- Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 01:45:25 GMT
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- Marc Unangst (mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan26.073432.16561@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Othman Ahmad) writes:
- : >Why do say we are stupid when the ATBus version is surely faster than the
- : >SCSI version?
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- : However, I doubt there's going to be any noticable performance
- : difference at all. Keep in mind that with a CD-ROM drive, the
- : bottleneck is getting the data off the CD, not getting the data from
- : the CD-ROM drive to the host. The CD<->drive transfer rate is going
- : to be 150K/s (or 300K/s, if you have one of the fancy double-speed
-
- My figures are actually from CD disk drives called lasermate which I was led
- to believe is a panasonic. It comes with 2 versions, the ATBUS(16-bit), and
- SCSI(S$80 more expensive).
- Reading the specs, I notice that the transfer rate for the SCSI is
- about 30%, 150K/s vs 170K/s(?). The access time of the SCSI is 0.5s vs 0.38 for
- the ATBUS version. The drives look similar so must be identical mechanically
- so the SCSI must have incurred a lot of overhead. Remember that the ATBUS is
- not IDE, so virtually the PC has full access to the internals of the CDROM
- circuit board.
-
- : drives), no matter what you do with the host adapter; 150K/s is much
- : lower than the maximum transfer rate of even an 8-bit card using
- : programmed I/O.
- YOu got the point. In fact I posted these observations to alt.cd-rom but
- no response. I believe people do not read the specs and compare.
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- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
- Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263.
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