atacontrol(8)
Kent Stewart
kstewart at owt.com
Wed Oct 15 02:00:49 PDT 2003
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 01:46 am, Mike Maltese wrote:
> > acd0: DVDROM <ATAPI DVD-ROM 16X Maximum> at ata1-master UDMA66
>
> I stand corrected, although I maintain that no optical drive is
> capable of that kind of throughput. =) I was kinda wondering if he'd
> been duped on the specs of the drive.
>
Neither are the HDs. They transfer at their rated speed but only have
the bus for a few milliseconds at a time. Regardless of the device, if
you transfer the data using dma, you are going to pass more information
per turn.
I figure the rest is advertising hype.
Kent
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