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Re: CD-ROM Drive

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Kevin Chu (kevin@portal.ca)
Sat, 25 Sep 1999 22:37:33 -0700

"Harondel J. Sibble" wrote:

> and it will actually read at 50X almost all the time. Another factor in the
> noise is some drives work in CAV(constant angualr velocity) mode and some
> CLV(constant linear velocity) mode, one of these is the noisy one, while the
> other is probably no worse than your 12x.

Seems to me that with constant angular velocity your bit rate would
vary with where you're looking on the disc, unless you vary the bit
density with the location on the disc, which would then create
compatibility problems. Am I thinking along the right track here?

Does it matter that your bit rate varies? Hard drives are another
story.

All you people complaining about slow CDROM drives.... I'm doing JUST
FINE with my doublespeed SCSI CDROM player....

Kevin 

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