From: emoenke@gwdu03.gwdg.de (Eberhard Moenkeberg) Subject: Re: El cheapo CD with Linux Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1993 16:23:15 GMT
Tony Porczyk (tporczyk@novell.com) wrote:
> I just saw a rather slow CD that nevertheless supported Kodak
> multi-session format. It was called Panasonic CR 562. I wonder if
> anyone used it successfully with Linux?
What do you mean: "rather slow"?
It is one of the fastest CDROM drives on the market. It is said to
be able to read with "double speed", and IT DOES.
My Linux-driver sbpcd0.4.tar.gz reads from that Matsushita / Kotobuki /
Panasonic / CreativeLabs drive (regardless which interface you are
using - "sound" or "no-sound", "SoundBlaster" or "LaserMate") with a
rate of 300 kB/sec. Anyone seen something better ??? :-)
With that drive, that driver and a "special" CDROM (that is one which
is more than a snapshot of any server) - the YGGDRASIL is best-known
here - you can build a "CDROM dependent" LINUX installation which
keeps your mass storage devices almost free - and the transfer
speed with files on that CD is in the range of IDE harddisk transfer
times.
> Any other recommendations (money is an object)?
Spend your money on that drive and a couple of CDs.
Greetings ... Eberhard
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