On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 09:48 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > I have never had a drive, and by now I've had 7 or 8 of them hit the > bin, a computer compatible cd or dvd drive that recognized a disk in > under 30 seconds. I can't say that I've timed them, but I'd guess my experience is getting close to that. Most drives are slow to figure out that there's a disc in, spin up, find out what type, and then the OS has to periodically probe the drive to see if it's not empty (there's a hardware disc change flag, but I'm told it's rarely made use of, where the drive tells the system there's been a disc change). The best drive I've got is an older, 6x spin speed, SCSI CD-ROM. It's faster to get going, is faster to restart after it's gone idle for a moment, and very fast to seek across the drive. Because of that, for many things it's quicker to use than a faster spin speed drive. Of course it was a damn expensive drive, and none of my current systems have a SCSI host. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
