Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:17:35 +0100 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: SONY or CD-ROM lying about speed? |
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Mark Lord wrote: > Thierry Danis wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 06, 1999 at 04:37:34PM +0100, Jon K Hellan wrote: > > > I have a SONY 32x CD-ROM CDU771. However, Linux reports it as 14 > > > speed. Apparently, FreeBSD does the same. > > The PIDENTIFY_DEVICE command is sent to the drive, > and one of the data fields returned is "drive maxspeed" > which in this case the drive sets to "14 x 176KB/sec" > (176KB/sec = 1X or "original" CD speed). > > Linux just displays what the drive told it.
It's a Sony problem - I've got a CDU611 (which is a 20x drive) and it reports 10x speed. Besides, performance isn't affected by the reported speed.
-- * Jens Axboe <axboe@image.dk> * Linux CD-ROM Maintainer * "The only thing that interferes with my * learning is my education." -- A. Einstein
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